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Play Year 4 Text Purpose Lab
Recognise explanation, instruction, report and newspaper purposes; identify key features and choose accurate neutral headlines. Saving is off unless you choose it.
Recognise supplied text purposes and feature descriptions. Complete-text comparison, extended tense analysis and independent writing are not assessed.
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Play Powerful Writing Lab
Choose precise verbs, setting imagery and character-revealing dialogue or action for a supplied writing goal. Saving is off unless you choose it.
Setting mode includes a personification question and other setting-language choices. It does not assess non-fiction structure; use Year 4 Text Purpose Lab for that work.
Year 4 · English
Understand structure and purpose in Year 4 English
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Focus on features of a newspaper report and explanation text. Open support for “Identify the Features of a Newspaper Report”, then explain the idea in your own words.
Year 4 learners practise features of a newspaper report and explanation text.
The activities include Identify the Features of a Newspaper Report, Distinguish Between Explanations, Instructions and Non-Chronological Reports, Explore Explanation Texts, and related practice. The checked support below includes teaching, video, lesson, worksheet. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.
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- Identify the Features of a Newspaper Report — support from YouTube — Studimation
- Distinguish Between Explanations, Instructions and Non-Chronological Reports — support from Oak National Academy
- Explore Explanation Texts — support from YouTube — GaneExplains
- Identify the Key Features of an Explanatory Text — support from Oak National Academy
- Know How Tenses Relate to the Purpose and Structure of Texts — support from YouTube
- Recognise Explanation Texts — support from Oak National Academy
- Understand Explanation Texts — support from YouTube — GaneExplains
- Understand Personification — support from Twinkl
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What is a Newspaper Report? | Report Writing
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Linguistic Features of a Non-Chronological Report about Anglerfish
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🍏 How to write an EXPLANATION TEXT (A step-by-step guide)
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The Features of an Explanation Text
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How to Write an Explanation: Purpose, Grammar and Structure
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Recognising Personification | KS2 English Concepts Video
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Oak: 'Little Red Riding Hood' journalistic report
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BBC Bitesize: Non-fiction
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Oak: Anglerfish non-chronological report
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Exploring Structures of Different Text Types (Ages 7 - 11)
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BBC Bitesize: Grammar
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Year 4 SPaG Samurai: Verb Forms and Tenses
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What is personification? - BBC Bitesize
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KS2 WAGOLL Whizz-kid Assignment: How Do Bees Make Honey? Explanation Text
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Features of an Explanation Text Checklist
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Figurative Language: Personification Differentiated Worksheets
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