Year 6

This sheet helps pupils explore the key language features of instructional writing. By examining a model text, children notice how tasks are introduced, how lists are presented, and how steps are made clear with precise wording and time adverbials. They… Read More »Magpie a Model Text – Instructions

This sheet supports pupils in understanding the features of journalistic writing. By analysing a model news report, children identify how writers use opening sentences to answer the key questions (who, what, when, where), include quotes and end with a summary.… Read More »Magpie a Model Text – Newspapers

This sheet helps pupils explore how biographies use language to present a person’s life clearly and respectfully. By analysing a model text, children notice how writers introduce key details, show when events happened, use precise verbs and adjectives, and adopt… Read More »Magpie a Model Text – Biography

This sheet is designed to help pupils explore how writers present balanced arguments. By analysing a model discussion text, children identify key features such as introductions, sentence starters for each viewpoint, evidence, linking phrases and formal or neutral language. They… Read More »Magpie a Model Text – Discussion

This open-ended sheet is designed to support pupils in reading like a writer. It can be used with any model text to help children notice effective words, sentences or ideas and then practise adapting them for their own writing. The… Read More »Magpie a Model Text – Blank