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Year 4 · English

Understand Structure And Purpose

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, worksheet, video, lesson. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Identify the Features of a Newspaper Report
  • Distinguish Between Explanations, Instructions and Non-Chronological Reports
  • Explore Explanation Texts
  • Identify the Key Features of an Explanatory Text
  • Know How Tenses Relate to the Purpose and Structure of Texts
  • Recognise Explanation Texts
  • Understand Explanation Texts
  • Understand Personification

Checked learning resources

  • Oak: 'Little Red Riding Hood' journalistic report

    Oak National Academy · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    Year 4 journalistic-report unit, relevant to newspaper-report features, headlines and writing a report from a familiar story.

  • BBC Bitesize: Non-fiction

    BBC Bitesize · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    KS2 non-fiction hub covering text types and features, useful for newspaper reports, explanation texts and non-chronological reports.

  • Twinkl: KS2 Newspaper Reports resources

    Twinkl · Worksheet · Opens on the provider website

    KS2 newspaper-report templates, PowerPoints and worksheets covering headlines, orientation, quotes, paragraphs and newspaper features.

  • Oak: Anglerfish non-chronological report

    Oak National Academy · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    Year 4 non-chronological report unit, useful for non-fiction structure, paragraphing and linguistic features.

  • Twinkl: What is an explanation text?

    Twinkl · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    Teaching guide explaining explanation-text purpose and features such as sequence, diagrams, labels and clear process writing.

  • BBC Bitesize: Grammar

    BBC Bitesize · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    KS2 grammar hub covering sentence structure, word classes, tenses, clauses, adverbs, prepositions and related grammar skills.

  • Linguistic Features of a Non-Chronological Report about Anglerfish

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Exact Year 4 lesson video defines a non-chronological report as factual non-fiction that informs about a subject out of time order, then identifies its formal, third-person and subject-specific language features.

  • The Features of an Explanation Text

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Exact Year 4 lesson video identifies explanation texts as non-fiction about how or why something works, then teaches introduction, chronological paragraphs, closing, formal subject vocabulary, conjunctions and present te