The Great Kapok Tree: Non-Chronological Report Example Text Pack

An example non-chronological report text about kapok trees, the tree from the bookThe Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry, plus three activities with answers, planning and writing templates.

Resources provided:
• Non-chronologcial report WAGOLL text
• Feature Find worksheet
• Feature Find answers
• Layout activity
• Layout answers
• Sentence Sorting activity
• Sentence Sorting answers
• Planning templates
• Writing template differentiated

Pupils read the model non-chronological report about kapok trees, and then examine its features; label the layout features of a non-chronological report; sort the sentences about kapok trees into sections; and plan and write their own non-chronological report using the templates. Pupils can create the information text about kapok trees or one of the animals from the book, such as a jaguar, sloth or boa constrictor. These activities can be carried out over several lessons.

Structural, language, grammar and punctuation features included in the model text:
• Heading
• Subheadings
• Introduction
• Fast Facts section
• Did you know? section with bullet points
• Glossary section
• Paragraphs
• Pictures with captions
• Technical vocabulary
• Expanded noun phrases
• Fronted adverbials
• Prepositional phrases
• Pronouns to avoid repetition
• Relative clauses
• List with commas
• Subordinate clauses
• Colons to introduce facts
• Colons to introduce lists
• Semi-colons in complex lists

The resources are available as PDFs and editable Word documents.

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