Informative Prompts Teaching Resources
A collection of writing prompt resources to help guide your students' informative writing. Use these fact files, stimulus sheets and writing scaffolds to encourage your students to research and write about different topics such as animals, objects, occupations, natural phenomena and more.
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Let's Research! Information Report Templates
Conduct, organise, and display research about books, people, planets, animals, states, and countries with a versatile set of report writing templates.
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Animal Research Project - Informative Writing Booklet
Use a printable animal research organiser booklet for students to record facts about animals when learning to write informative texts.
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5 Informative Writing Stimulus Sheets
Writing stimulus sheets with an informative text focus.
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Informative Texts Writing Task - Elephants
A writing activity to help students construct an informative text based on factual information.
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Animal Adaptations - Informative Writing Prompt Worksheets
Write to describe animals and their adaptations with a printable pack of informative writing worksheets.
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Informative Paragraph Starters - Topic Sentence Cards
20 topic sentences to be used at the beginning of an informative paragraph.
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Procedural Writing Activity - How to Make a Sundae
Inspire students to generate procedural writing texts with a fun, summer-themed end-of-year writing assignment and craft.
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Informative Texts Writing Tasks - Fact Files and Scaffolding Sheet
A set of 5 fact files and a scaffolding sheet which can be used to write an informative text.
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Explanation Text Writing Task – Why Do Volcanoes Erupt?
A scaffolded writing task for students to complete when learning about the explanation text type.
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Topic Sentence Starter Cards
A pack of 32 narrative, persuasive and report writing sentence starter cards.
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Informative Texts Writing Task - Eagles
A writing activity to help students construct an informative text based on factual information.
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Weathering and Erosion – RACES Writing Strategy Worksheets
Combine reading, writing and science with two worksheets about weathering and erosion using the RACES writing strategy for text evidence.
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Informative Texts Writing Task - Firefighters
Guide your students through writing an informative essay about Firefighters with a printable Fact File writing prompt and writing scaffold worksheets.
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Informative Texts Writing Task - Cars
A writing activity to help students construct an informative text based on factual information.
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Informative Texts Writing Task - Gemstones
A writing activity to help students construct an informative text based on factual information.
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Informative Texts Writing Task - Weather
A fact file about weather and scaffolding sheet which can be used to write an informative text.
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What Causes the Seasons? Explanation Text Writing Task
Use this scaffolded writing task to have students write about how seasons change.
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Characteristics of Animals - Year 1 Writing Activities
Help your young students read and write about features of animals with a printable Animal Characteristics Write the Room activity.
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Biography Timeline Template
Use this multipurpose timeline template for a variety of assignments, projects, and more!
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Explanation Text Writing Task – How Does the Water Cycle Work?
A scaffolded writing task for students to complete when learning about the explanation text type.
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Explanation Text Writing Task – How Does a Plane Fly?
A scaffolded writing task for students to complete when learning about the explanation text type.
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Informative Texts Writing Task - Cupcakes
A fact file about cupcakes and scaffolding sheet which can be used to write an informative text.
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Rainforest Bird Craft & Writing Template
Pair a fun bird craft and informational writing to create a fun jungle-themed classroom display.
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Gold Miners' Bulletin Project
A creative writing newspaper project in which students design and write the front page of an imagined newspaper from the Australian Gold Rush era.
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Informative Texts Fact Sort - Halloween Writing Activity
Practise organising information for essay writing with this informative text fact-sorting activity.
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Explanation Text Writing Task – How Does the Respiratory System Work?
A scaffolded writing task for students to complete when learning about the explanation text type.
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Informative Texts Writing Task - Doctors
A writing activity to help students construct an informative text based on factual information.
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Informative Texts Writing Task - Lions
A fact file about lions and scaffolding sheet which can be used to write an informative text.
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How to Build a Snowman - Procedural Writing Worksheets
Explain how to build a snowman with a pack of printable year 1 writing activities.
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Spider Writing Worksheets - Year 1
Differentiate writing instruction in year 1 with a group of leveled informational writing prompts about spiders
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Polar Bear Craft Template
Pair a polar bear craft and informational writing to create a fun winter animals classroom display.
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Write About It! Pumpkins - Differentiated Writing Prompts
Differentiate writing instruction in year 1 with a group of levelled informational writing prompts about pumpkins.