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Year 5

The Amazon Rainforest: essay writing

7 lessons

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  • Developing essay writing
  • Reading and writing texts that inform

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In this unit, pupils write their first formal essay of the primary curriculum. In it, pupils write about deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest with facts derived from research presented in clear paragraphs. The essay question given calls for pupils to write their essay as a single line of argument.

This unit uses and builds on formal writing skills developed in the Year 5 unit 'The Aye-Aye or Wild Cats: non-chronological report'. Here, pupils write their first essay of the primary curriculum. This requires them to interrogate what an essay question is asking them to write, using research, planning and paragraphs that build on each other to answer the question fully. The question given asks pupils to follow a single line of argument about how deforestation is negatively impacting the Amazon Rainforest. This unit prepares pupils for the Year 6 unit 'Polar regions: essay writing'.

  1. Identifying the features of an essay
  2. Researching deforestation in the Amazon rainforest
  3. Setting out a logical argument in response to an essay title
  4. Planning and writing the introduction to an essay
  5. Planning and writing the first main paragraph of an essay
  6. Planning and writing the second main paragraph of an essay
  7. Planning and writing the conclusion of an essay

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