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Year 5 · English

Plan What And Who To Write For

Year 5 learners practise writing for your audience and purpose.

The activities include Develop Understanding of Devices to Use in A Non-Fiction Text, Identify Different Types of Text, Identify Fact and Opinion, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, teaching, worksheet, lesson. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Develop Understanding of Devices to Use in A Non-Fiction Text
  • Identify Different Types of Text
  • Identify Fact and Opinion
  • Identify Features of a Letter
  • Identify Personification
  • Identify Purpose in Writing
  • Identify the Features of a Newspaper
  • Learn How To Write for Your Audience
  • Understand How to Match Writing to a Specific Audience
  • Understand How to Write for Your Audience
  • Understand Persuasive Devices
  • Use Connectives in Writing
  • Use Persuasive Devices

Checked learning resources

  • KS2 Organisational Devices Video Lesson

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    KS2 video identifies organisational devices across newspapers, information texts, magazines and instructions and explains how they guide readers.

  • English: Facts and Opinions — KS2

    YouTube — Anglesey Primary School · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Primary-school video explains how to distinguish verifiable facts from personal opinions, including statements used in persuasive texts.

  • Recognising Purpose and Audience | KS2 English Concept Video

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    KS2 video models how to identify why a text was written and who it was written for, including inform and persuade purposes.

  • Recognising Personification | KS2 English Concept Video

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    KS2 video models how to identify personification and explain why writers give human qualities to objects, animals or ideas.

  • Writing a Newspaper Report and Newspaper Features

    BBC Bitesize · Video · Opens on the provider website

    KS2 video and guide identify headlines, leads, quotations, factual detail and other newspaper-report features.

  • Using Conjunctions | KS2 English Concept Video

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    KS2 video explains how conjunctions and connective words link ideas, phrases and clauses and includes independent questions.

  • Non-fiction Texts

    BBC Bitesize · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    KS2 hub teaches the purposes, structures and language features of major non-fiction text types.

  • Year 5 Writing Assessment Checklist

    Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required

    Year 5 checklist supports identifying and applying the structural and language features expected in purposeful non-fiction writing.