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Play Audience and Purpose Lab
Match language, structure, text features and persuasive devices to a stated audience and purpose. Saving is off unless you choose it.
Match writing choices to a stated audience and purpose.
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Play Year 5 Critical Reading Lab
Use evidence in short original texts to separate fact from opinion, infer vocabulary and interpret written instructions. Saving is off unless you choose it.
Distinguish fact from opinion in supplied examples.
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Play Cohesion Lab
Choose connectives, paragraph links and subordinate clauses that make relationships between ideas clear. Saving is off unless you choose it.
Choose connectives that fit a writer’s intended relationship between ideas.
Year 5 · English
Plan what to write and who to write for in Year 5 English
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Focus on writing for your audience and purpose. Open support for “Explore Devices for Non-Fiction Writing”, then explain the idea in your own words.
Year 5 learners practise writing for your audience and purpose.
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- Explore Devices for Non-Fiction Writing — support from Twinkl
- Identify Different Types of Text — support from Twinkl
- Identify Fact and Opinion — support from YouTube — Anglesey Primary School
- Identify Features of a Letter — support from Twinkl
- Identify Personification — support from Twinkl
- Identify Purpose in Writing — support from Twinkl
- Identify the Features of a Newspaper — support from BBC Bitesize
- Learn How To Write for Your Audience — support from YouTube — Learn Easy English
- Understand How to Match Writing to a Specific Audience — support from Twinkl
- Understand How to Write for Your Audience — support from YouTube — Learn Easy English
- Understand Persuasive Devices — support from Twinkl
- Use Connectives in Writing — support from Twinkl
- Use Persuasive Devices — support from Twinkl
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KS2 Organisational Devices Video Lesson
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English: Facts and Opinions — KS2
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Recognising Purpose and Audience | KS2 English Concept Video
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Recognising Personification | KS2 English Concept Video
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Writing a Newspaper Report and Newspaper Features
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First, Second and Third Person Point of View
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Using Conjunctions | KS2 English Concept Video
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Non-fiction Texts
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School Uniform: Persuasive Letter Writing
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What Is Personification?
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Creative Writing
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Little Red Riding Hood: Journalistic Report
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KS2 Grammar
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Year 5 Writing Checklist
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Year 5 and 6 English Morning Activities: Fact or Opinion
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Fact and Opinion Worksheets
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Figurative Language: Personification Differentiated Worksheets
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Purpose, Audience, Style and Form Activity Sheets
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Recognising Newspaper Report Language Features
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KS2 First, Second and Third Person Differentiated Worksheets
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Persuasive Writing PowerPoint and Worksheet
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Features of a Persuasive Text Checklist
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Cause and Effect Connectives Worksheet
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