Informative Texts — Year 5
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About this unit
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
Purpose, audience and informative-text structure
Text, visual, navigation and multimodal features
Specialist vocabulary, expanded noun groups, precise verbs and connectives
Paragraph cohesion, planning, drafting, editing and publishing
Editable quiz — 22 slides
10 questions with alternating answer slides
True/false, multiple-choice and short-answer formats
Unit-plan PDF — 28 A4 pages
Table of Contents — 1 page
Informative Text Toolkit Display — 1 colour page
Text Feature Detective Card Sort — 2 colour pages
Informative Text Quest Game — 3 colour pages
Paragraph Puzzle Activity — 2 colour pages
Mangroves: Structure Scan — 3 pages including answer key
Honeybee Messages: Language Feature Hunt — 2 pages including answer key
Eastern Quolls: Paragraph Builder — 3 pages including answer key
Coral Reef Rescue: Text Feature Makeover — 2 pages
Tropical Cyclones: Fact Sort and Planner — 3 pages including answer key
Little Penguins: Cohesion Connectives — 2 pages including answer key
Giant Cuttlefish Museum Panel Assessment — 3 pages including analytical answer key
Structure and Language Features of Informative Texts Rubric — 1 page
Learning focus
Identify purpose and audience in informative texts.
Explain the 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.
Year, subject and topic
Year level: Year 5 / Grade 5
Subject: English
Topic: informative texts; text structure; language features; text and multimodal features; expository writing
Curriculum alignment
Australian Curriculum v9.0
AC9E5LY06
Australian Curriculum v8.4
ACELY1704, ACELY1705, ACELY1707
Victorian Curriculum 2.0
VC2E5LY10, VC2E5LY11
NSW Curriculum
EN3-OLC-01, EN3-VOCAB-01, EN3-CWT-01, EN3-SPELL-01, EN3-HANDW-01, EN3-HANDW-02, EN3-UARL-01, EN3-UARL-02
Western Australian Curriculum
WA5ELYC1, WA5ELYC4
Common Core State Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3.b, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.5, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.2.a, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.2.e, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.5.4.a, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.5.4.b, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.1.b, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.1.c, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.1.d, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.2.b, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.2.c, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.2.d, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.2.e, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3.d, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3.e, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.6, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.8, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.9, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.10
England National Curriculum
UK-UKS2-ENG-W-C, UK-UKS2-ENG-R-WR, UK-UKS2-ENG-W-T-S, UK-UKS2-ENG-W-T-H, UK-UKS2-ENG-W-V, UK-UKS2-Y6-ENG-SPK
New Zealand Curriculum
NZ-Y5-ENG-W-C-APT-1, NZ-Y6-ENG-W-C-APT-1, NZ-Y5-ENG-W-WP-D-2, NZ-Y6-ENG-W-WP-D-2, NZ-Y5-ENG-W-C-DT-1, NZ-Y6-ENG-W-C-DT-1
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills
TEKS-ELAR-G5-7F, TEKS-ELAR-G5-9E, TEKS-ELAR-G5-9F, TEKS-ELAR-G5-10B, TEKS-ELAR-G5-10C, TEKS-ELAR-G5-11, TEKS-ELAR-G5-11A, TEKS-ELAR-G5-11B, TEKS-ELAR-G5-11C, TEKS-ELAR-G5-11D, TEKS-ELAR-G5-11E, TEKS-ELAR-G5-12, TEKS-ELAR-G5-12A, TEKS-ELAR-G5-12B, TEKS-ELAR-G5-12C, TEKS-ELAR-G5-12D, TEKS-ELAR-G5-13G, TEKS-ELAR-G5-13H
Ontario Curriculum
CAN-G5-LANG-D1.1, CAN-G5-LANG-D1.2, CAN-G5-LANG-D1.3, CAN-G5-LANG-D1.4, CAN-G5-LANG-D1.5, CAN-G5-LANG-D2.1, CAN-G5-LANG-D2.2, CAN-G5-LANG-D2.3, CAN-G5-LANG-D2.4, CAN-G5-LANG-D2.5, CAN-G5-LANG-D2.6, CAN-G5-LANG-D3.1, CAN-G5-LANG-D3.2, CAN-G5-LANG-D3.3, CAN-G5-LANG-B3.3, CAN-G5-LANG-C1.4, CAN-G5-LANG-C3.8
Formats, page counts and answers
Teaching content: 28 unit-plan pages, 29 presentation slides and 22 quiz slides (79 pages/slides in total)
Answer key status: included — six matching red-answer pages
Suggested duration: approximately five lessons or one full teaching week
Teacher benefits
One sequenced unit joins explicit instruction, collaborative practice and independent assessment.
Multi-page tasks provide usable response space instead of compressing Year 5 work.
Colour is reserved for displays, games and hands-on resources; print practice and assessment pages are black and white.
Matching answer pages support efficient review and marking.
Native PowerPoint text remains editable in the presentation and quiz.
Digital product and licence
This is a digital product; no physical item is supplied. Purchase grants the original buyer a single-classroom licence for use with their own students. Files may not be resold, redistributed, shared publicly or uploaded to an unsecured platform. Copyright remains with Sukindi Learning.
