Planning the paragraph about houses in the Stone Age
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can plan the houses paragraph for a non-chronological report about the Stone Age.
Key learning points
- Notes should be written in note form and bullet points can be used to order notes.
- Viewpoint fronted adverbials and formal fronted adverbials are used at the start of sentences for cohesion.
- The purpose of the houses paragraph is to show how housing of the Mesolithic period differed to that of the Neolithic.
- Mesolithic people were nomadic: they carried their homes with them as they moved.
- Neolithic people began settling in small communties in houses built of stone.
Keywords
Subject-specific vocabulary - vocabulary used when writing about a particular subject
Plan - a framework that writers create before they write a section or whole text
Notes - written out of full sentences
Subheading - a word, phrase or sentence used to introduce part of a text
Nomadic - travels from one place to another rather than settling
Common misconception
Planning needs to be detailed and include full sentences.
Planning should only have keywords and be written in note-from using bullet points.
Teacher tip
Supplement pupil knowledge of the houses in the Mesolithic and Neolithic period with additional videos, images and research. Pupils can make posters of their research from which they can plan notes.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which of these nouns needs a capital letter?
Q2.Which sentence is correctly punctuated?
Q3.In which sentence is the comma used correctly?
Q4.Which of these fronted adverbials shows that another idea is being added to the previous sentence?
Q5.Which of these is a viewpoint fronted adverbial?
Q6.What is a fronted adverbial always followed by?
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which of these are subject-specific vocabulary?
Q2.What is in a plan?
Q3.Which of the following is true of the Mesolithic period?
Q4.Match these Stone Age notes to the sections they would be used in.
Diet
Housing
Artefacts
Q5.How do notes help the writer?
Q6.Complete the following sentence. Skara Brae shows that Neolithic people...
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