a non-fiction text that informs about a subject or event and that is written out of time order.

vocabulary used when writing about a particular subject

Linguistic features of a non-chronological report about the Stone Age

English

Writing the introduction of a non-chronological report about the Stone Age

Planning the paragraph about diet in the Stone Age

Writing the paragraph about diet in the Stone Age

Planning the paragraph about houses in the Stone Age

Writing the paragraph about houses in the Stone Age

Planning the paragraph about artefacts in the Stone Age

Writing the paragraph about artefacts in the Stone Age

Writing the conclusion of a non-chronological report about the Stone Age

Publishing a non-chronological report about the Stone Age

In this unit, pupils use previously-taught features of a non-chronological report to write more extensively for purpose.  In the King Tut unit, pupils will increase the quantity of writing across a similar structure.

In the Portia Spider unit, pupils learnt how to write a non-chronological report following a similar structure.   In this unit, pupils will use the same features of a non-chronological report to write more extensively for purpose.

In this unit, pupils research the diet, housing and artefacts of people in the Stone Age to write a non-chronological report. Pupils focus on using a range of fronted adverbials, subject-specific vocabulary and facts to write a clearly-structured full report. Pupils publish their reports at the end.

The Stone Age: non-chronological report

the way diagrams are arranged in a report

the way punctuation is used to show a feeling

the way words are used in a sentence to make the meaning clear

Tick the words that are specific to the topic of the Stone Age.

What type of fronted adverbial is 'Interestingly,'?

Which of these are formal fronted adverbials?

What kind of language is used in a non-chronological report?

Choose an appropriate fronted adverbial to link these two sentences. 'The Mesolithic people moved their homes depending on where the animals went. __________ the Neolithic people settled in homes.'

 a text that provides information about real-life topics

a made-up story about characters who aren't real

Match the word with the correct definition.

Complete the following sentence. A fronted adverbial...

The purpose of an information text is to {{}} the reader about a subject, person or event.

Which is **not** an example of formal language?

What type of word class must a clause contain?

This lesson was made for home learning during the pandemic.

Linguistic features of a non-chronological report about the Stone Age

Lesson outcome

This lesson was made for home learning during the pandemic.