Help your Year 4 students master author’s purpose the way the Australian Curriculum asks for it. AC9E4LY03 asks students to identify the characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text, and AC9E4LA02 asks them to tell the subjective language of opinion from the objective language of factual reporting. This complete unit teaches students to take an argument apart and see exactly how it holds together.

This is built specifically for the Australian Curriculum. Students learn to name an author’s purpose with PIE, find the points an author is making, tell a reason from a piece of evidence, and explain how reasons and evidence support a point. One clear idea runs through the whole unit: a point is a claim on trial, a reason tells why, and evidence is the proof.

Every lesson follows a consistent arc: a clear learning target, direct instruction with modelled examples, guided and independent practice, and a recap. Three worksheets (six pages) move students from vocabulary and the PIE purpose sort, through the reason-versus-evidence distinction and tracing the support chain, to writing a full argument statement on their own with a self-check. The unit closes with a solo exit ticket and a four-point rubric.

What is the keystone skill? The Point + Reason + Evidence Statement: the author’s point is a certain claim, one reason is the why behind it, and the author supports that reason with a specific piece of evidence. This reusable sentence frame forces all three links of the chain - the point, the reason, and the evidence - into one sentence students can use with any persuasive or informative text.

Includes a full lesson deck, three worksheets, an exit ticket, and a 4-point rubric. All passages are original - not recycled public-domain filler.

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM V9 (ENGLISH), YEAR 4

AC9E4LY03 - identify the characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text

AC9E4LA02 - identify the subjective language of opinion and feeling, and the objective language of factual reporting

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