Writing non-fiction (lower KS2)

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Jo Heffer
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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
Writing non-fiction (lower KS2) pack
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19/02/2021

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22/05/2020

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25/09/2018

Thank you so much for your positive feedback. We are so pleased you have found our resources both engaging and time-saving!

Lynne Kent

11/07/2017

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19/02/2021

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22/05/2020

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25/09/2018

Thank you so much for your positive feedback. We are so pleased you have found our resources both engaging and time-saving!

Lynne Kent

11/07/2017

Great text examples which I converted into text maps for 'Talk for Writing' before presenting the children with the actual text. Lovely supporting activities and PowerPoint to go with the text. My children have been really engaged and it has saved me a lot of time.

Sarah Hedges

25/06/2017

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