Instructions and Recipes - Writing Lesson - PowerPoint and Activities

This resource includes everything you need to teach children grades 3 to 6 how to write instructions and recipes. It includes teaching input/ information slides for the structural and language features of instruction texts, an example of an instruction text, a modelled/ shared writing task, independent writing tasks and differentiated feature checklists.

The resource is a PowerPoint presentation lesson complete with:

√ Learning objective
√ Success criteria
√ Starter activity
√ Review of relevant prior learning
√ Teaching input/ information slides
√ Example of an instruction text
√ Speaking, listening, reading and writing tasks
√ Feature checklist for instructions
√ All answer slides
√ Plenary

Learning Objective:
LO: To identify the features of and write my own set of instructions

Success Criteria:
I can read and understand a set of instructions.
I can identify the purpose of a set of instructions.
I can describe the structure of a set of instructions.
I can identify the language features of a set of instructions.
I can write my own set of instructions.

Lesson details:
Starter activity covering purpose of instruction texts, the difference between fiction and non-fiction and introducing recipes
Teaching input - explaining what instructions
Example of a set of instructions (recipe)
Speaking and listening task - mind-map of features
Teaching input - Structural features of instructions + consolidation task:
- Heading and subheadings
- A list of ingredients
- A list of equipment
- Method
- Bullet points and numbered points
- Preparation time
Teaching input - language features of a non-chronological report + consolidation tasks:
- Time order adverbials
- Present tense, imperative verbs
- Second person pronouns
- Formal, impersonal language
- Adverbs
Modelled/ shared write task - instruction writing
Independent and differentiated consolidation writing task (3 levels)
Differentiated feature checklists (3 levels)
Plenary - Peer review task

PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.

This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.