Year 9 Non-Fiction Travel Writing/Writing to reflect

These lessons build skills for writing (and reading) and develop pupils awareness of how audience and text type dramatically impact style, register, tone and content.

A series of lessons I used as part of a Non-Fiction unit. Geared for more able, but can be adapted.

Lessons are particularly focused around using grammar for effect and stylistic conventions. However, the lessons do also develop reading skills parallel to writing.

The final assessment is taken from a text in Cambridge English Checkpoint Stage 9 (Cambridge Curriculum). You can discard this, use your own text, or even allow the pupils freedom to invent or base their travel writing from a text of their choice or their own experiences. I had them base their travel writing on an informative text of a place, so they could also exercise their summarizing skills and deciding what content is relevant/most effective for the task.