The Stone Age: non-chronological report
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds pupils' knowledge of non-chronological report writing from the Year 3 unit 'Healthy lifestyle or King Tut: non-chronological report'. Pupils write using the paragraphing structure of an introduction, themed sections and conclusion ; they also write using a range of formal and viewpoint fronted adverbials and subject-specific vocabulary to ensure their writing flows cohesively. Pupils also use subheadings to clearly signal each section. This unit prepares pupils for further non-chronological report writing in the Year 4 unit 'Anglerfish: non-chronological report'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- The Stone Age is a prehistoric era before written records. It comes in between the Ice Age and the Bronze Age.
- The Stone Age is split into three periods: Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic.
- The purpose of a non-chronological report is to inform its reader about a particular 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.
- Nouns can be referred to in a range of ways in order to avoid repetition.
- Text flow can be achieved by writing simple, compound and adverbial complex sentences.
- Grammatical and linguistic features of non-chronological reports include apostrophes for singular possession, subject-specific vocabulary and causal conjunctions.
- Formal fronted adverbials are sentence starters followed by a comma.
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds pupils' knowledge of non-chronological report writing from the Year 3 unit 'Healthy lifestyle or King Tut: non-chronological report'. Pupils write using the paragraphing structure of an introduction, themed sections and conclusion ; they also write using a range of formal and viewpoint fronted adverbials and subject-specific vocabulary to ensure their writing flows cohesively. Pupils also use subheadings to clearly signal each section. This unit prepares pupils for further non-chronological report writing in the Year 4 unit 'Anglerfish: non-chronological report'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- The Stone Age is a prehistoric era before written records. It comes in between the Ice Age and the Bronze Age.
- The Stone Age is split into three periods: Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic.
- The purpose of a non-chronological report is to inform its reader about a particular 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.
- Nouns can be referred to in a range of ways in order to avoid repetition.
- Text flow can be achieved by writing simple, compound and adverbial complex sentences.
- Grammatical and linguistic features of non-chronological reports include apostrophes for singular possession, subject-specific vocabulary and causal conjunctions.
- Formal fronted adverbials are sentence starters followed by a comma.
Reading, writing & oracy
The Stone Age: non-chronological report
In this unit, pupils research the diet, housing and artefacts of people in the Stone Age to write a non-chronological report. Pupils focus on using a range of fronted adverbials, subject-specific vocabulary and facts to write a clearly-structured full report. Pupils publish their reports at the end.
10 lessons in unit
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