Revisit the story of How to Catch a Star using the story map to retell. Discuss ideas for catching a star! Explain that today they are going to write these as special instructions.
Read letter from ‘the boy’ asking us to help him catch the star - see letter
Revisit features of instructions - instructional language/imperative verbs, sequential/in order, can use numbers, laid out clearly, in the present tense
Show Talk for Writing gestures for time openers such as ‘first’.
Model on flipchart.
Model also how you can go back and ‘check’ your work - write a sentence with some mistakes. Read it back together and edit with a purple pen.
Provide word bank for all - openers, verbs , nouns
Provide this numbered, boxed instruction template
*Provide a choice of instruction openers for them to choose from and order
***Differentiated by OUTCOME
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