a name or heading given to a piece of writing

a short section at the start of a piece of writing designed to tell the reader about the main text

a list of things that are combined to make something, often food

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

English

Learning the features of instructions

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

Planning to write instructions for how to make a monster pizza

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

Instructions for making something to eat are called...

Put these parts of a recipe in chronological order.

True or false? Ingredients are the individual things you need to combine together to make something.

True or false? The purpose of an introduction is to engage the reader, give a brief overview of the main piece of writing and make the reader want to read on.

Imperative verbs can also be known as ...

Which of these words is an **imperative verb**?

Which of these words is an **ordering fronted adverbial**?

Which of these ordering fronted advebrials should come with the **last** instruction?

Starter Quiz

A recipe is a list of ...