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Year 6 · English

Awareness Of Structure And Purpose

Year 6 learners practise features of persuasive and instructional texts.

The activities include Understand the Features of Instructional Texts, Understand the Features of Persuasive Texts, Understand the Features of Recount Texts. The checked support below includes teaching, lesson, video. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Understand the Features of Instructional Texts
  • Understand the Features of Persuasive Texts
  • Understand the Features of Recount Texts

Checked learning resources

  • BBC Bitesize: Non-fiction

    BBC Bitesize · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    BBC KS2 Non-fiction support for features of persuasive and instructional texts.

  • Twinkl: Planit Year 6 Spag Lesson Pack Layout Devices

    Twinkl · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

    Twinkl Year 6 resource linked to features of persuasive and instructional texts.

  • Recognising Purpose and Audience | KS2 English Concept Video

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    Models how to identify why a text was written and who it was written for, including inform and persuade purposes. The video teaches how purpose and audience shape an instructional text; the accompanying checklist supplie

  • Features of a Persuasive Text Checklist

    Twinkl · Lesson · Account may be required

    Verified KS2 checklist teaching pupils to identify and apply the structural and language features of persuasive texts and persuasive writing.

  • Persuasive Writing PowerPoint and Worksheet

    Twinkl · Lesson · Account may be required

    Verified KS2 PowerPoint and worksheet teaching pupils to recognise persuasive-text structure and language features, analyse examples and apply those features in their own persuasive writing.

  • Recount Examples Resource Pack

    Twinkl · Lesson · Account may be required

    Verified KS2 resource pack with model recount texts and activities for identifying recount structure and language features, including chronological order, past tense, first person and time connectives.

  • Persuasive Booklet Writing

    Twinkl · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

    Year 6 English resource matched to features of persuasive and instructional texts.

  • Features of a Recount Text Checklist

    Twinkl · Lesson · Account may be required

    Verified KS2 checklist teaching pupils to recognise and apply recount-text features including chronological order, past tense, first person and time connectives.