Students learn how images, sound and layout guide attention and add meaning in visual texts.
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Year 4 · Literature
Literature
Respond to stories and poetry, compare authors’ choices and explore imagery and wordplay.
100 questions and practical tasks · 10 practice sets
Work through one set at a time. Check closed answers for explanations; review open responses against a model and success criteria. Oral and handwriting tasks need an adult or learning partner.
Most activities include original texts. Author comparison activities clearly identify books to borrow or read with an adult; those books are not reproduced here.
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Set 1
Questions 1–10
plot tension · character through action · sentence effect · motivation · resolution · coherent continuation · character development · language and relationships · word choice · characterisation
10 questions & tasks → Set 2Questions 11–20
ending effect · theme · different perspectives · character motivation · comparing accounts · narrative voice · informed continuation · structure and viewpoint · fantasy conventions · humour
10 questions & tasks → Set 3Questions 21–30
connecting story elements · reader interest · setting · imaginative continuation · personification · metaphor · sound pattern · repetition · rhyme · extended image
10 questions & tasks → Set 4Questions 31–40
close reading · personification · contrast · inference about speaker · poetic structure · evidence for a response · drama conventions · plot problem · character action · stage action and meaning
10 questions & tasks → Set 5Questions 41–50
humour and connection · text form · shared literary features · theme · comparing structures · cause in a plot · source awareness · literary devices and wordplay
10 questions & tasks → Set 6Questions 51–60
literary devices and wordplay
10 questions & tasks → Set 7Questions 61–70
explaining author choices · supported literary opinion · responding to perspectives · setting and genre · poetic sound · responding to imagery · drama and performance · comparing themes · title and effect · illustration and response
10 questions & tasks → Set 8Questions 71–80
creating suspense · developing a storyline · creating viewpoint · creating fantasy · creating a sound poem · creating imagery · creating drama · creating wordplay · developing setting · adapting literary techniques
10 questions & tasks → Set 9Questions 81–90
storylines across contexts · relationships across texts · settings and illustrations · ideas across authors · place and belonging · family relationships · openings across contexts · supported comparison · ideas in personal stories · context and memory
10 questions & tasks → Set 10Questions 91–100
important moments · character and experience · place across texts · viewpoint across authors · illustrators and meaning · sharing literary connections · journeys across contexts · emotional effects · relationships and home · comparing ideas respectfully
10 questions & tasks →Curriculum links
These activities map to the following Victorian Curriculum English Version 2.0 Level 4 content descriptions.
Students compare stories from different authors and cultures, noticing shared ideas while respecting context.
Students explain how story structure and language choices affect their response to a text.
Students explore how tension, character and setting keep readers interested.
Students learn how writers use devices such as repetition, rhyme, simile, alliteration and playful grammar to create meaning.
Students create their own literary texts using story elements and language choices they have noticed in reading.
Students learn to organise a short speech or presentation and use voice features such as volume, pace and expression.
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