Model Text — Free Verse Poetry (Y6)
WAGOLL example of Year 6 free verse poetry — The Old Library. Demonstrates imagery, metaphor, line breaks, and emotional weight without rhyme. Useful for SATs reading and for poetry units.
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Model Text — Newspaper Report (Y5)
WAGOLL example of a Year 5 newspaper report on a fictional event. Demonstrates the inverted-pyramid structure, direct/reported speech, formal third-person voice, and journalistic conventions.
Model Text — Narrative Opening (Y6)
WAGOLL example of a Year 6 narrative opening — atmospheric, character-driven, with sophisticated sentence variety. Demonstrates show-don't-tell, dialogue, and 'pathetic fallacy' for SATs writing standards.
Model Text — Balanced Argument (Y6)
WAGOLL example of a Year 6 balanced argument essay — Should Children Have Mobile Phones? Demonstrates formal essay structure, both-sides reasoning, modal verbs, and a measured conclusion at SATs writing standard.
Model Text — Biography (Y5)
WAGOLL example of a Year 5 biography of Mary Anning, fossil hunter. Cross-curricular link to KS2 science (rocks and fossils). Demonstrates third-person past-tense biography structure with chronological organisation.
Model Text — Discussion Text (Y5)
WAGOLL example of a Year 5 discussion text — Are Computers Better Than Books for Learning? Demonstrates balanced both-sides structure, formal connectives, and a measured conclusion below the harder Y6 standard.
Model Text — Persuasive Speech (Y6)
WAGOLL example of a Year 6 persuasive speech — for school council election. Demonstrates direct address, rhetorical devices (rule of three, repetition, rhetorical questions), and pace control for spoken delivery at SATs writing standard.