Writing non-fiction (upper KS2)

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Jo Heffer
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Teaching pack

Hone your children’s writing skills for a range of non-fiction texts with our time-saving pack.

The pack includes activities and exemplars to consolidate your children’s understanding of how to write biographies, non-chronological reports and texts to persuade, explain, instruct and discuss.

What's included?

  • 46 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 4-34)

  • Session 1 – Why do games need instructions?
  • Session 2 – Shared reading
  • Session 3 – Planning a set of instructions
  • Session 4 – Modelled writing
  • Session 5 – Explaining and writing instructions
  • Assessment sheet – instructions
  • Exemplar text – instructions
  • PowerPoint resource: Instructional writing
  • Group task – what makes a good set of instructions?
  • Home learning – what makes a good set of instructions?
  • What are the features?
  • Home learning – punctuation collector
  • Sequencing instructions
  • Planning instructions
  • Gingerbread Fred
  • Snakes and Ladders
  • Colons, semi-colons and commas

Recounts - biographies (pages 35-58)

  • Session 1 – What are the features of a biography?
  • Session 2 – Planning a biography
  • Session 3 – Shared writing – the introduction and early life
  • Session 4 – Writing a biography – early career, achievements and personal life
  • Session 5 – Completing and evaluating your biography
  • Assessment sheet – biographies
  • Exemplar text – Inasu Blot Biography
  • PowerPoint resource: Recounts – biographies
  • Features of a biography
  • What should a biography include?
  • Paragraph planner – biography

Explanatory writing (pages 59-86)

  • Session 1 – Creating questions
  • Session 2 – What are the features of an explanation text?
  • Session 3 – Planning an explanation
  • Session 4 – Modelled writing
  • Session 5 – Modelled writing
  • Assessment sheet – explanations
  • What are the features?
  • Why are mermaids strong swimmers?
  • PowerPoint resource: Explanatory writing
  • Home learning – devising questions
  • Causal connectives
  • Planning an explanation
  • Embedding relative clauses sheet

Persuasive writing (pages 87-113)

  • Session 1 – Holiday brochures
  • Session 2 – Shared reading
  • Session 3 – Planning a non-chronological report
  • Session 4 – Modelled writing
  • Session 5 – Modelled writing
  • Assessment sheet – persuasive writing
  • Exemplar text – persuasive holiday report - The Grand Imperial Hotel - the most charming hotel in the land!
  • PowerPoint resource: Persuasive writing
  • Important holiday information
  • Why would you choose this holiday?
  • Persuasive or informative?
  • Planning a holiday brochure
  • Holiday images

Discussion texts (pages 114-128)

  • Session 1 – Let’s debate!
  • Session 2 – Using the semi-colon
  • Session 3 – Shared reading
  • Session 4 – Modelled writing
  • Session 5 – Modelled writing
  • Assessment sheet – discussion texts
  • Exemplar text - Should primary age children be allowed to use mobile phones? – discussion
  • PowerPoint resource: Discussion texts
  • Good questions
  • Contrasting conjunctions
  • Certainty of an event cards
  • The nine modal verbs
  • Home learning – modal verbs
  • Home learning – contentious issues
Writing non-fiction (upper KS2) pack
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