Choose a Structure for an Audience — Year 6 English Unit

Give Year 6 writers a practical reason to move beyond naming genres. In this complete five-lesson unit, pupils read a 576-word original exhibition guide about a paper-bridge classroom test, compare a shorter visitor route, plan the function of each stage, and draft for a real reader. The final task transfers the method to a fresh paper wind-shelter exhibit: pupils write a coherent guide, revise one substantive mismatch and justify their choices using reader needs and exact evidence.

What's included

• 28-page Unit Plan PDF: Table of Contents, three-page teacher guide, colour display, full mentor text, short alternative, discussion organiser, three levels of planner practice, 12-card colour reader-route game, ramp-exhibit rehearsal, two-page independent assessment, seven matching red sample-answer/marking pages and a four-criterion rubric.
• Editable 18-slide teaching PowerPoint presentation.
• Editable 26-slide PowerPoint quiz with 12 question-and-answer pairs and explanations.

Learning focus

audience and purpose; purposeful stages and phases; coherent hybrid or adapted text; evidence-based structural choices; substantive revision and rationale.

Classroom use

teach across five 45–60-minute lessons. Use the original guide and display for modelling, planners for guided/core/transfer practice, cards for partner reasoning and the wind-shelter task for independent evidence. Support oral planning and spelling access while keeping the structural choices and reasons pupil-owned.

Formats and answers

PDF Unit Plan, 28 pages; editable PPTX presentation, 18 slides; editable PPTX quiz, 26 slides. Seven matching red answer/marking pages are paired with the Unit Plan practice and assessment tasks; quiz answers are on separate explanatory slides.

Teacher benefits

complete original mentor text before analysis; a distinct alternative route for comparison; structured progression from guided decisions to independent transfer; exact sample answers and observable rubric descriptors.

Digital product and licence

Digital download; no physical product. Use is subject to the store’s digital-resource licence terms.