Informative Texts — Year 5

A complete Year 5 English unit for analysing and creating informative texts through explicit teaching, hands-on activities, differentiated practice, assessment and answer pages.

Full Description

Structure and Language Features of Informative Texts gives Year 5 teachers a coherent week of instruction and practice aligned to Australian Curriculum v9.0. The sequence starts with purpose and audience, then teaches introductions, grouped body sections and conclusions; headings, navigation and visual features; specialist vocabulary, expanded noun groups and precise verbs; connectives, reference and cohesion; and the plan–draft–edit–publish process.

Students learn through a native editable presentation, a question-and-answer quiz, colourful card sorts and games, model-text analysis, scaffolded worksheets, open drafting tasks and a two-part museum-panel assessment. Australian animal and environment contexts keep the factual reading purposeful. Six answer pages reproduce the matching worksheet design and show answers in red where students write.

What’s Included

• Editable teaching presentation — 29 slides
• Editable quiz — 22 slides with 10 question-and-answer pairs
• Unit Plan PDF — 28 A4 pages
• Informative Text Toolkit display
• Text Feature Detective card sort
• Informative Text Quest game
• Paragraph Puzzle activity
• Model-text, language-feature, paragraph-building, text-feature, planning and cohesion worksheets
• Giant Cuttlefish Museum Panel assessment
• Six matching answer pages and an analytical rubric

Learning Focus

• Identify purpose and audience in informative texts
• Explain introduction–body–conclusion structure
• Recognise and select text, visual, navigation and multimodal features
• Use specialist vocabulary, expanded noun groups, precise verbs and cohesive connectives
• Organise factual paragraphs and maintain clear reference
• Plan, draft, edit and publish an informative text for a defined audience

Classroom Use

Use the presentation for explicit whole-class teaching, then rotate students through the card sort, board game and paragraph puzzle. The model-text and language worksheets support guided or independent practice. Coral Reef Rescue provides an open design challenge, while the giant cuttlefish and southern right whale task can be used as the culminating assessment. The included rubric supports marking, feedback and student goal setting.

Formats, Counts and Answers

Includes PDF and editable PowerPoint files: a 28-page Unit Plan, 29-slide presentation and 22-slide quiz. Six matching answer pages are included.

Digital Product and Licence

This is a digital teaching product; no physical item will be shipped. Purchase permits use by one teacher with their own students in accordance with the Sukindi single-user licence. Files may not be shared, resold, uploaded publicly or redistributed.