Planning to write instructions for how to make a monster pizza

English

Learning the features of instructions

Generating ideas and vocabulary for instructions for how to make a monster pizza

Writing the title, introduction and ingredients list for monster pizza instructions.

Writing instructions for how to make a monster pizza

Editing instructions for how to make a monster pizza

In this unit, pupils learn about a type of non-fiction writing: instructions.  In ‘The Great Fire of London: Non-Chronological Report’, pupils learn to write in another non-fiction text type: non-chronological reports.

In ‘Looking After Pets: Reading and Writing’, pupils learnt how to give information to the reader about how to perform a task successfully.   In this unit, pupils will build on this by writing more formal instructions in a list.

In this unit, pupils write a set of formal instructions, including a title and an ingredients list, for a fantasy disgusting pizza. Pupils learn about imperative verbs and precise adjectives that match the informative and formal tone of writing.

Monster pizza: instructions writing

True or false? Instructions contain verbs to tell the reader what to do.

What is the name for the bossy verbs that are used in instructions?

Which word is the imperative verb in this instruction: First, mix the ingredients together.

What is the name for the order in which things happen?

True or false? Instructions are written in non-chronological order.

Instructions use ordering fronted adverbials to sequence them for the reader. But where do these go in an instruction? 

True or false? Your imagination is a unique tool that can help you to create absolutely anything just by using your mind!

Your imagination can help you to think of characters and settings that...

Which of these does **not** exist in real life?

An adjective can be used to describe a ...

True or false? An adjective always goes after a noun. 

Which of these adjectives is suitable for describing a cloud?

Starter Quiz

True or false? Your imagination is a unique tool that can help you to create absolutely anything just by using your mind!