Assess your pupils' understanding of what a paragraph is with this Year 6 Paragraphs in Non-Fiction Prior Learning worksheet before moving onto learning about using paragraphs in non-fiction texts. Three varied fluency questions, two reasoning and one application question about a piece of fictional writing on pirates are given.

A child-friendly answer sheet is provided to allow for peer or self marking to make marking and misconception checking quicker and easier.

This worksheet could be used as a prior knowledge check before the main lesson or with small groups of children who may need extra support with paragraphs. It could also be used as an intervention.