Informative Writing Teaching Resources for Year 3
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5 Information Report Writing Prompts
Use this set of 5 writing prompts to assess your students’ informative writing skills.
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Informative Paragraph Topic Sentence Starters - Interactive Slides
Build your students’ writing skills with a set of digital informative paragraph writing prompts.
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Landform Report – Mini Book Template
Download this information report template to use when teaching informative writing to primary students.
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Country Report – Mini Book Template
Download this information report template to use when teaching informative writing to primary students.
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Factual Description Text Type Poster With Annotations
Display this factual description with annotations to help students identify the structure of this type of text.
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Explanation Text Type Poster With Annotations
Display this explanation text with annotations to help students identify the structure of an explanation.
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Procedure Text Type Poster With Annotations
Display this procedure text with annotations to help students identify the structure of a procedure.
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Penguin Craft & Writing Template
Research and write about penguins and their adaptations, then create a fun penguin craft to display student work.
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Biography Research Template
Provide students with this biography research template to help them gather key life details and take organised notes for writing a well-structured biography.
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Note Taking Graphic Organiser
A graphic organiser for students to use when recording research notes.
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"Simon Says" Instruction Cards
A set of 24 instruction cards to use when playing "Simon Says".
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Biography Graphic Organiser Pack
Use this biography graphic organiser pack to simplify the process of planning and presenting biographical information for your students.
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R.A.C.E.S Writing Strategy Checklists & More
Help your students write quality constructed responses with printable R.A.C.E.S. writing checklists.
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How to Stay Healthy – Procedural Writing Project
Get your students writing high-quality procedure texts with this fun “How to Stay Healthy” procedural writing project.
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How to Plant a Garden – Procedural Writing Project
Get your students writing high-quality procedure texts with this fun “How to Plant a Garden” procedural writing project.
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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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Biography Poster With Annotations
Use this biography poster to introduce your students to the structure and language features of biography writing through an annotated example.
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Writing Procedural Texts Teaching Slides
Use this procedural writing PowerPoint to teach your students about the purpose, structural elements and language features of procedure texts.
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How To Make A Sandwich – Procedural Writing Activity
Get your students writing a procedure for their favourite sandwich with this example procedure text and writing scaffold.
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5 Procedural Writing Prompts
Use this set of 5 procedural writing prompts to assess your students’ procedural writing skills.
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Procedural Recount Text Type Poster With Annotations
A poster about the procedural recount text type, including an annotated example.
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Biography Poster Project Cut-Outs
Download this biography poster project containing engaging cut-outs that help students design an eye-catching and informative display about a person of their choice.
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Constructed Response Rubrics - R.A.C.E & R.A.C.E.S
Make marking constructed response writings easy with printable constructed response rubrics.
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R.A.C.E.S. Constructed Response Writing Classroom Display
Help your students write evidence-based responses to text with a printable R.A.C.E.S. Writing Strategy classroom display.
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Information Report Checklists
Use these information report checklists when teaching your students how to edit their informative texts.
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Community Helper – Digital Report Writing Activity
Use this community helpers interactive activity to model the purpose and structural elements of information reports.
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Australian Paralympic Athletes - Biography Banners
Bring the Paralympic Games to life with this set of Australian Paralympian Biography pennant templates.
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How to Make an Ice Cream Sundae Interactive Activity
Use this “How to Make an Ice Cream Sundae” procedural writing interactive activity to model the purpose, structural elements and language features of procedure texts.
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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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Report Writing – Firefighter Activity Pack
Engage your class with firefighter activity that combines informative writing practice with real-world learning about community helpers.
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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 Writing Word Wall
A set of 27 vocabulary words related to explanation writing.