The Portia Spider: non-chronological report
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Why this why now
This unit builds on pupils' knowledge of non-chronological report writing from the Year 2 unit 'Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole: non-chronological report'. Pupils structure their writing with an introduction, themed sections and a conclusion paragraph; they also write using a range of fronted adverbials and subject-specific vocabulary to ensure their writing flows. New learning includes using subheadings accurately within report writing. This unit prepares pupils for further non-chronological report writing in the Year 3 unit 'Healthy lifestyle or King Tut: non-chronological report'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- The purpose of a non-chronological report is to inform its reader about a particular (usually real) subject.
- Non-chronological reports are a type of factual, non-fiction writing.
- Non-chronological reports are organised into paragraphs of related content each with its own subheading.
- Non-chronological reports can contain visual information, most commonly diagrams or photographs accompanied by a caption.
- Grammatical and linguistic features of non-chronological reports include apostrophes for singular possession, subject-specific vocabulary and causal conjunctions.
- Nouns can be referred to in different ways in order to avoid repetition.
- Text flow can be achieved by writing simple, compound and adverbial complex sentences.
- Formal fronted adverbials are sentence starters followed by a comma.
- An apostrophe for singular possession is a punctuation mark used to show if a noun belongs to another singular noun.
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Why this why now
This unit builds on pupils' knowledge of non-chronological report writing from the Year 2 unit 'Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole: non-chronological report'. Pupils structure their writing with an introduction, themed sections and a conclusion paragraph; they also write using a range of fronted adverbials and subject-specific vocabulary to ensure their writing flows. New learning includes using subheadings accurately within report writing. This unit prepares pupils for further non-chronological report writing in the Year 3 unit 'Healthy lifestyle or King Tut: non-chronological report'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- The purpose of a non-chronological report is to inform its reader about a particular (usually real) subject.
- Non-chronological reports are a type of factual, non-fiction writing.
- Non-chronological reports are organised into paragraphs of related content each with its own subheading.
- Non-chronological reports can contain visual information, most commonly diagrams or photographs accompanied by a caption.
- Grammatical and linguistic features of non-chronological reports include apostrophes for singular possession, subject-specific vocabulary and causal conjunctions.
- Nouns can be referred to in different ways in order to avoid repetition.
- Text flow can be achieved by writing simple, compound and adverbial complex sentences.
- Formal fronted adverbials are sentence starters followed by a comma.
- An apostrophe for singular possession is a punctuation mark used to show if a noun belongs to another singular noun.
Reading, writing & oracy
The Portia Spider: non-chronological report
In this unit, pupils research the appearance features and hunting strategies of the Portia Spider in order to write a non-chronological report about them. Pupils focus on using a range of fronted adverbials and subject-specific vocabulary to present their research in a well-structured report.
10 lessons in unit
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