The English Series: 4th Grade English Workbook

Identify recount, procedure, persuasive, information report and narrative texts from short extracts and name what distinguishes each

Use time connectors and linking connectors accurately, and explain what each connector signals about the sentence that follows

Build and analyse noun groups, adverb groups and prepositional phrases, labelling pointers, counters, describers, classifiers and the head noun

The three sections stand alone: text types, language features and literature can be taught in any order, though several sheets refer back to a text printed a page or two earlier

Several activities refer to earlier readings. Check each page reference and print the required text with its activities; a text may support several worksheets

The Answers section gives sample responses as well as fixed ones, which is useful on the open questions where more than one answer works

Text-type identification - students read five short extracts and sort them as recount, procedure, persuasive, information report or narrative.

Grammatical structure - students label the parts of a noun group across pointer, counter, describer, classifier and head noun, then work through adverb groups and prepositional phrases.

Poetry reading - three narrative poems are analysed after a vocabulary-gathering organiser on the Australian bush prepares the imagery.