Practise and revise different layout devices with this bright, appealing PDF grammar worksheet.
Activities include SATs-style questions and opportunities for creative writing responses, with eye-catching images as prompts.
This primary resource is divided into five sections:
Understand
Identify the layout devices on the example given.
Challenge
Give examples of subheadings that could be used in a book about space.
Test
Answer the questions about different layout devices.
Explain
Explain why writer’s use different layout devices.
Apply
Write a newsletter for the school, thinking about the layout devices needed to present the information clearly.
What are layout devices?
A range of layout devices are used, particularly in non-fiction texts, to help present information clearly to the reader and structure the text.
Examples of layout devices
headings
subheadings
diagrams
bullet points
underlining
tables
columns
National Curriculum English programme of study links
Pupils should be taught to use layout devices [for example, headings, sub-headings, columns, bullets, or tables, to structure text]