Informative Writing Teaching Resources
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Applying Proofreading and Editing Skills
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply proofreading and editing skills.
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Biographical Texts Structure
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the structure of biographical texts.
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Using Descriptive and Comparative Language
A 60 minute lesson in which students will understand how descriptive and comparative language is used in informative texts.
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Just the Facts!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will use facts to describe people, places, animals and objects.
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Using A Fact File - Shared Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will use a fact file and scaffolding sheet to write an informative text in pairs.
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Simon Says!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore action verbs, common nouns and adverbial phrases in procedures.
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Informative Texts - Language Features
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the language features of informative texts.
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Shared Writing - How Do You Make It?
A 60 minute lesson in which students will write a procedure text in pairs explaining how to make something.
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Modelled Writing - Improving Procedure Texts
A 60 minute lesson in which students will improve a procedure text by applying knowledge of procedure text structure and language features.
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Procedure Texts - Language Features
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the language features of procedure texts.
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Independent Writing – An Adult I Admire
A 60 minute lesson in which students will independently write a biography using appropriate text structure, language and features.
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Shared Writing – A Teacher's Life
A 60 minute lesson in which students will write a biography in pairs about a teacher’s life using primary information.
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Biographical Text Language Features
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the structure of biographical texts.
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Life Events – What to Include?
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore life events that may or may not be included in a biographical text.
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Who Am I?
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Developing Procedural Writing Skills Unit Plan - Year 3 and Year 4
This English unit addresses the purpose, structure and language features of the procedure text type.
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Exploring Informative Texts Unit Plan - Year 1 and Year 2
This English unit has been designed to introduce the informative genre to younger students; specifically, the purpose, structure and language features of information reports.
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Developing Informative Writing Skills Unit Plan - Year 3 and Year 4
This English unit addresses the informative text type; specifically, how to write a well-structured informative text.
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Writing Informative Texts Unit Plan - Year 5 and Year 6
This English unit addresses the informative text type; specifically, how to write a well-structured informative text.
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Writing Biographical Texts Unit Plan
This English unit addresses the purpose, structure and language features of the biography text type.
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Animal Fact Book - Independent Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will independently create an informative fact book about an animal.
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Animal Information Report - Shared Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will construct a simple information report about an animal in pairs.
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Animal Information Report - Modelled Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will jointly construct a simple information report about an animal.
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Procedural Texts - Text Structure
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the structure of procedures.
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Publishing a Recipe Book
A 60 minute lesson in which students will publish a simple recipe for bush stew.
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Independent Writing - How to Make Bush Stew
A 60 minute lesson in which students will independently write a recipe for bush stew.
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Guided Writing - How To Make Fruit Salad
A 60 minute lesson in which students will jointly construct a simple recipe for fruit salad in small groups.
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Modelled Writing - How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth
A 60 minute lesson in which students will jointly construct a simple procedure about a familiar experience.
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Procedural Texts - Language Features
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the language features of procedures.
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Instruct Me!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore how procedures provide instructions about completing a task.
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The Missing Mona Lisa – Chapter 3: The Evidence Piles Up!
Chapter 3 introduces the Adventure Agents to the evidence collected so far and requires them to write a newspaper report informing the public that the 'Mona Lisa' has been stolen.
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The Missing Mona Lisa - Chapter 2: I Saw You!
Now it's time for the Adventure Agents to learn some of the main characters and look at their witness statements. They will have the first pieces of this fun puzzle!
- Informative Writing Templates
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- Informative Writing Posters
- Informative Writing Word Walls
- Informative Writing Projects
- Informative Writing for Foundation Year
- Informative Writing for Year 1
- Informative Writing for Year 2
- Informative Writing for Year 3
- Informative Writing for Year 4
- Informative Writing for Year 5
- Informative Writing for Year 6