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Help Year 6 students move from noticing an author's choices to explaining how those choices shape meaning, mood and reader response. This unit explores word choice, sentence structure, punctuation, imagery, tone, voice, point of view, characterisation, visual features and text structures through explicit teaching, discussion, games, close reading and evidence-based writing.

The resource combines editable PowerPoint teaching and quiz decks with colour classroom materials, black-and-white worksheets, matching answers, a two-page assessment, suggested assessment answers and a marking rubric. The sequence is suitable for approximately one week of whole-class lessons and can also support literacy rotations, small groups or independent practice.

WHAT'S INCLUDED
- 16-slide editable PowerPoint presentation: Characteristics that Define an Author's Style
- 22-slide editable PowerPoint quiz: Characteristics that Define an Author's Style
- 21-page unit plan in editable PPTX and PDF formats
- 21-page protected preview PDF
- Colour classroom display: Author Style Moves
- Colour activity: Style Station Cards
- Colour activity: Gallery Walk Poster Guide
- Colour game: Style Evidence Trail
- Colour game: Author Style Decision Cards
- Black-and-white worksheet: Style Snapshot
- Black-and-white worksheet: Sentence Choices and Mood
- Black-and-white worksheet: Dig into the Details
- Black-and-white worksheet: Visual and Verbal Style
- Black-and-white worksheet: Author Style Comparison
- Five matching worksheet answer pages
- Two-page black-and-white assessment: Author Style Investigation
- Two suggested assessment answer pages
- Black-and-white landscape rubric: Characteristics that Define an Author's Style Rubric

LEARNING FOCUS
- Identify characteristics that contribute to an author's individual style.
- Locate and explain evidence of word choice, sentence structure, punctuation, imagery, tone, voice and point of view.
- Analyse how language, visual and structural choices shape meaning, mood and reader response.
- Compare the styles of different authors using evidence from texts.
- Apply selected style choices in original writing.

CLASSROOM USE
- Approximately one week of Year 6 English lessons
- Whole-class explicit teaching and discussion
- Literacy rotations and gallery-walk activities
- Small-group support or extension
- Independent close-reading and written-response practice
- Summative assessment with suggested answers and rubric

YEAR LEVEL, SUBJECT AND TOPIC
Year level: Year 6 / Grade 6
Subject: English
Topic: Author's style, close reading, literary analysis, language features and text evidence

CURRICULUM ALIGNMENT
Australian Curriculum 9.0: AC9E6LE03 - Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text, and engage and influence audiences.
Australian Curriculum 8.4: ACELT1616
Victorian Curriculum 2.0: VC2E6LE03
NSW: EN3-OLC-01, EN3-VOCAB-01, EN3-UARL-01, EN3-UARL-02, EN3-RECOM-01
Western Australia: WA6ELIEX1
Common Core: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.6, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.9, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.3.a, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.9.a, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.9.b
UK: UK-KS3-ENG-R-WR, UK-KS3-ENG-G
New Zealand: NZ-Y6-ENG-OL-C-TSSF-1, NZ-Y6-ENG-W-WC-LFD-1
TEKS: TEKS-ELAR-G6-7, TEKS-ELAR-G6-7B, TEKS-ELAR-G6-7C, TEKS-ELAR-G6-8, TEKS-ELAR-G6-8A, TEKS-ELAR-G6-8C, TEKS-ELAR-G6-9, TEKS-ELAR-G6-9A, TEKS-ELAR-G6-9D, TEKS-ELAR-G6-9E, TEKS-ELAR-G6-9F, TEKS-ELAR-G6-11A, TEKS-ELAR-G6-12G
Ontario: CAN-G6-LANG-C1.5, CAN-G6-LANG-C3.1, CAN-G6-LANG-C3.2

FILE FORMATS AND COUNTS
File formats: PPTX and PDF
Unit plan: 21 pages
Presentation: 16 slides
Quiz: 22 slides
Preview: 21 protected pages

ANSWER-KEY STATUS
Answer support is included: five matching worksheet answer pages, two suggested assessment answer pages and answers within the quiz deck.

TEACHER BENEFITS
- A coherent sequence from explicit instruction to guided analysis and assessment
- Editable teaching and quiz decks for flexible classroom delivery
- Named, print-ready resources for discussion, practice and assessment
- Matching answer support for efficient checking and feedback
- Colour used for displays, activities and games; black and white used for worksheets, answers, assessment and rubric

DIGITAL PRODUCT AND LICENCE
This is a digital product; no physical item will be shipped. Purchase grants personal and single-classroom use for the purchaser. Files may be printed for the purchaser's own students. Do not resell, redistribute, share, alter for resale or upload the files to public or shared websites.