Year 3 Informative Texts Unit | Factual Recount, Autobiography & Explanation

Teach Year 3 students how informative texts are structured with this complete English unit on factual recounts, autobiographies and sequential explanations. Students compare text purposes, identify structure and language features, use evidence to explain their choices, and practise planning and writing clear informative texts.

The unit supports a full week of explicit teaching, guided practice, hands-on revision and assessment. It includes editable presentation and quiz PowerPoints, print-ready worksheets, answer pages, classroom display material, games, assessment and rubric.

What’s Included

• Editable Informative Texts 2 presentation
• Editable quiz with 10 mixed question-and-answer pairs
• Informative Text Types classroom display
• Text Type Trek board game and Feature Sort activity
• Six student worksheets covering text types, recounts, autobiographies, explanations, language features and structure
• Matching worksheet and assessment answer pages
• Informative Text Assessment
• Year 3 marking rubric

Learning Focus

• Distinguish factual recounts, autobiographies and sequential explanations
• Recognise purpose, structure and language features
• Identify point of view, tense, time connectives and technical words
• Use evidence to explain a text-type choice
• Plan and write informative sections in a clear sequence

Classroom Use

Use the presentation and display for explicit teaching, the board game and sorting activity for guided revision, and the worksheets for independent practice. The assessment and rubric provide clear evidence of student understanding.

This is a digital resource supplied in PDF and editable PowerPoint formats. No physical product will be shipped.