Non-fiction Lesson - Features of a Non-chronological report - Teaching PowerPoint with Activities!

Before children try to write a non-chronological report, they need to know what one looks like, they need to know how it should be set out and they need to know what features to include.

This resource includes everything you need to teach children grades 3 to 6 about non-chronological reports and their features. It includes two example non-chronological report texts for you to examine in class.

The resource is a PowerPoint presentation lesson complete with:

√ Learning objective
√ Success criteria
√ Starter activity
√ Review of relevant prior learning
√ Teaching input/ information slides
√ Examples of good non-chronological reports
√ Speaking, listening, reading and writing tasks
√ Explanations and examples of how to use each structural and language feature in your own non-chronological reports
√ Consolidation tasks for each feature
√ Whole class and independent activities
√ Feature checklist
√ Plenary

Learning Objective:
LO: To identify the structural and language features of a non-chronological report

Success Criteria:
I can distinguish between fiction and non-fiction.
I can explain the meaning of ‘non-chronological’.
I can describe how a non-chronological report is structured.
I can identify language features of a non-chronological report.

Lesson details:

Starter activity - Sorting texts task
Review of revelant prior learning - fiction & non-fiction
Teaching input - meaning of non-chronological
Example of a non-chronological report (6 text slides)
Teaching input - structure of a non-chronological report, explanations, examples and consolidation tasks for these features (headings, sub-headings, an introduction, paragraphs, facts, photos, diagrams, key information boxes)
Teaching input - language features of a non-chronological report, explanations, examples and consolidation tasks for these features (present tense, third person, generalisers, technical vocabulary, factual adjectives, formal language)
Independent consolidation task
Example of a non-chronological report (5 text slides)
Feature checklist
Plenary - Assessment of learning task

This lesson can be a stand-alone lesson showing the features of a non-chronological report but it can also be part of a bundle of three lessons teaching children how to write non-chronological reports. This is lesson one of three.

Lesson 1 - Identify the features of non-chronological reports and examine example texts
Lesson 2 - Conduct own research into a topic and present findings (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-13117269)
Lesson 3 - Write own non-chronological report
(https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-13118600)

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.