Year 4 · Literature

Literature

Respond to stories and poetry, compare authors’ choices and explore imagery and wordplay.

35 questions and practical tasks · 4 practice sets · filtered to VC2E4LE04

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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

personification · metaphor · sound pattern · repetition · rhyme · extended image · close reading · contrast · inference about speaker

10 questions & tasks → Set 2

Questions 11–20

poetic structure · evidence for a response · shared literary features · theme · comparing structures · cause in a plot · source awareness · literary devices and wordplay

10 questions & tasks → Set 3

Questions 21–30

literary devices and wordplay

10 questions & tasks → Set 4

Questions 31–35

poetic sound · responding to imagery · creating a sound poem · creating imagery · creating wordplay

5 questions & tasks →

Curriculum links

These activities map to the following Victorian Curriculum English Version 2.0 Level 4 content descriptions.

VC2E4LE02

Students explain how story structure and language choices affect their response to a text.

VC2E4LE03

Students explore how tension, character and setting keep readers interested.

VC2E4LE04

Students learn how writers use devices such as repetition, rhyme, simile, alliteration and playful grammar to create meaning.

VC2E4LE05

Students create their own literary texts using story elements and language choices they have noticed in reading.

VC2E4LY02

Students learn to organise a short speech or presentation and use voice features such as volume, pace and expression.

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