Students learn that we change our words, tone and level of formality depending on who we are speaking or writing to.
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Year 4 · Writing
Writing and editing
Create narratives, information texts and persuasive texts; edit, design and practise joined handwriting.
33 questions and practical tasks · 4 practice sets · filtered to VC2E4LY11
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Questions 1–10
Revising a short narrative · Revising an informative profile · Revising a weak argument · Composing and revising a formal email · Moving sentences to improve sequence · Adding essentials and deleting distractions · Replacing vague vocabulary · Editing repetitive references · Editing time and conditional links · Editing dialogue punctuation
10 questions & tasks → Set 2Questions 11–20
Editing an interrupted spoken sentence · Changing direct speech to reported speech · Composing direct speech from a report · Editing informal language for an adult audience · Adapting formal writing for a peer · Reorganising a report by topic · Repairing unclear references · Strengthening a narrative resolution · Editing for concision · Reordering a persuasive paragraph
10 questions & tasks → Set 3Questions 21–30
Repairing misleading time links · Distinguishing quotation from reported speech · Editing instructions for a new reader · Applying three purposeful revision strategies · Revising handwriting for a reader · Evaluating handwriting fluency · Revising a digital text for navigation · Revising placement and salience · Writing and revising a complete explanation · Integrating narrative craft and revision
10 questions & tasks → Set 4Questions 31–33
Composing an audience-aware proposal · Producing a complete digital exhibition text · Creating and revising a complete picture-book plan
3 questions & tasks →Curriculum links
These activities map to the following Victorian Curriculum English Version 2.0 Level 4 content descriptions.
Students learn that different texts are built in different ways, such as procedures, reports, narratives and explanations.
Students learn to link ideas with words that show time, condition and topic relationships.
Students learn how websites and digital texts use layout and navigation tools to help readers find information.
Students learn how images, sound and layout guide attention and add meaning in visual texts.
Students learn how to punctuate direct speech using quotation marks, commas, capitals and end punctuation.
Students learn the difference between exact spoken words and speech that is retold in the writer's own words.
Students create their own literary texts using story elements and language choices they have noticed in reading.
Students create clear written and spoken texts with linked ideas for different audiences and purposes.
Students edit writing by improving meaning, content and structure, not just fixing spelling.
Students develop handwriting that is legible, joined where appropriate and easier to produce fluently.
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