KS1 - Information Texts - Extreme Weather - 10 Lessons

Introducing our comprehensive 2-Week Writing Unit, meticulously designed to guide students through the process of writing an informative text about tsunamis. This engaging course combines elements of science and language arts to stimulate curiosity and enhance writing skills.

Key Features:

End of Unit (Big Writing): By the end of this intensive unit, students will have mastered the art of writing detailed and engaging informational texts, with a specific focus on tsunamis.

Includes: The unit comes complete with interactive Smart Notebook slides, illustrative models, detailed lesson plans, and engaging activities. These resources aim to create a stimulating and dynamic learning environment.

Learning Objectives:

Reading – Comprehension: Students will be exposed to a range of non-fiction texts, including information, explanations, instructions, recounts, and reports. They’ll learn to discuss how specific information is organised within a non-fiction text, making use of elements like text boxes, sub-headings, contents, bullet points, glossaries, and diagrams.

Spoken Language: Students will learn to ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge. They’ll also participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations, and debates.

Writing – Composition: Our unit guides students to plan and discuss what to write about, using techniques like story mapping and collecting new vocabulary and key ideas. They’ll learn to use specific text type features to write for a variety of audiences and purposes, write about real and fictional events, edit and improve their own writing, evaluate their writing with adults and peers, and proofread to check for errors in spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Writing - Vocabulary, Grammar, and Punctuation: The unit will guide students to construct and punctuate simple and compound sentences using connectives, use sentences with different forms, use commas to separate items in a list, and use the present tense for non-chronological reports.

Embark on this educational journey with our 2-Week Writing Unit, and watch your students transform into budding authors and knowledgeable young scientists!