Nocturnal animals: non-chronological report
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge of report writing from the Year 2 unit 'The Great Fire of London: non-chronological report'. Here, pupils review key features of non-chronological reports, including an introduction and themed paragraph structure; then they write their own report in three paragraphs. Pupils focus on including and defining key subject-specific vocabulary throughout their reports. This unit prepares pupils for further non-chronological report writing in the Year 2 unit 'Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole: non-chronological report'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Most texts can be sorted into two categories, fiction and non-fiction.
- A type of non-fiction text is an information text.
- An information text is read so that the reader can learn information about a particular subject.
- An information text can have a heading.
- An information text can be divided into paragraphs.
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge of report writing from the Year 2 unit 'The Great Fire of London: non-chronological report'. Here, pupils review key features of non-chronological reports, including an introduction and themed paragraph structure; then they write their own report in three paragraphs. Pupils focus on including and defining key subject-specific vocabulary throughout their reports. This unit prepares pupils for further non-chronological report writing in the Year 2 unit 'Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole: non-chronological report'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Most texts can be sorted into two categories, fiction and non-fiction.
- A type of non-fiction text is an information text.
- An information text is read so that the reader can learn information about a particular subject.
- An information text can have a heading.
- An information text can be divided into paragraphs.
Reading, writing & oracy
Nocturnal animals: non-chronological report
In this unit, pupils write a non-chronological report in three paragraphs about nocturnal animals. Pupils use two research lessons about bats and hedgehogs as the starting point for writing an introduction and a paragraph about each nocturnal animal.
9 lessons in unit
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