15 Year Five and Six example creative writing texts (WAGOLL)

Having trouble finding high-quality examples of Year 5 and 6 texts for children to analyse and aspire to? So did I!

These texts were shared-written with my class over the course of a year and contain all of the grammatical features a Year 5 or 6 child is expected to have in their writing - including the Greater Depth statements.

Examples of features include:

• Modal and Passive verbs
• Expanded Noun Phrases
• Prepositional Phrases
• The subjunctive
• Colons and Semi-colons between independent clauses
• Brackets, Dashes and Commas for Parenthesis
• Punctuating direct and indirect speech

These texts were written to engage a reader and I’m confident they’ll engage your class.

The 15 texts include:

• A biography of Michael Faraday
• A biography of Isambard Kingdom Brunel
• A Victorian short narrative
• A spy short narrative
• An information text about Volcanoes
• A description/explanation of a World War spy gadget
• Three dramatic recounts
• A newspaper article
• A dragon-themed factfile
• A non-chronological report of a fictitious creature