Writing non-fiction (lower KS2)

Your go-to pack for writing non-fiction at years 3 and 4! Equip your children with the skills to write newspaper reports, non-chronological reports and texts to persuade, explain, instruct and discuss.

What's included?

• 44 quality resources, including answer sheets where relevant
• PowerPoint presentations to accompany each non-fiction type
• opportunities to introduce, practise and consolidate key grammar elements
• includes starters, main activities, plenaries, assessment opportunities, extension ideas and home learning tasks
• links to the curriculum.

What's inside?

Introduction (page 3)

Instructional writing (pages 4-27)

• Session 1 – Sequencing instructions
• Session 2 – Using precise language
• Session 3 – Shared reading – recipe
• Session 4 – Modelled writing – the introduction and ingredients
• Session 5 – Shared writing – the method
• Assessment sheet – Instructions
• Exemplar text – recipe for a marvellous medicine
• PowerPoint resource: Instructional writing
• Who’s the audience?
• Sequencing instructions
• No unnecessary words please!
• Preposition poem
• Home learning – preposition hunt

Recounts – newspapers (pages 28-58)

• Session 1 – What are the features of a newspaper report?
• Session 2 – Grammar focus – using fronted adverbials
• Session 3 – Shared reading – Goldilocks and the Three Bears
• Session 4 – Planning a newspaper report
• Session 5 – Modelled writing – orientation and events
• Session 6 – Role play – eyewitness and personal comment
• Session 7 – Proofreading and polishing
• Assessment sheet – newspapers
• Exemplar text -- newspapers - Bears Burgled!
• PowerPoint resource: Recounts - newspapers
• Features of a newspaper
• Newspaper labels
• Using fronted adverbials
• Home learning – adverbial collector
• Sorting the news – labelled
• Sorting the news – add your own labels
• Paragraph planner
• Little Red Riding Hood events
• Time for role play

Explanatory writing (pages 59-84)

• Session 1 -- What is an explanation?
• Session 2 -- Using the present perfect
• Session 3 – Shared reading
• Session 4 – Modelled writing
• Session 5 – Modelled writing
• Assessment sheet – explanations
• Exemplar text – explanation - why are gnomes so small?
• PowerPoint resource: explanatory writing
• Home learning – puzzling questions
• Cause and effect language structures
• Fronted adverbial
• Paragraph planner -- planning an explanation
• The subordinate clause

Persuasive writing (pages 85-109)

• Session 1 – How are persuasive texts constructed?
• Session 2 – Planning a persuasive text
• Session 3 – Nouns and noun phrases
• Session 4 – Modelled writing
• Session 5 – Modelled writing
• Assessment sheet -- persuasion
• Exemplar text – Cinderella’s speech - I'm Cinderella, get me out of the swamp!
• PowerPoint resource: Persuasive writing
• Can we persuade you? Persuasive techniques checklist
• Home learning -- alliteration
• Planning a persuasive speech

Non-chronological writing (pages 110-125)

• Session 1 – What is a non-chronological report?
• Session 2 – Planning a non-chronological report
• Session 3 – Sentence structure
• Session 4 – Modelled Writing – the introduction and appearance
• Session 5 – Modelled writing – habitat, diet and behaviour
• Assessment sheet – non-chronological reports
• Exemplar text – non-chronological report - Goblins
• PowerPoint resource: Non-chronological reports
• Sort it out
• Non-chronological reports – fact file
• Forming sentences
• Top trumps