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Example diary entry text for the Moon landing written as Neil Armstrong, plus writing feature identification worksheet.
Useful for cross curricular English and history/science lessons.
Contains the following features: language features such as similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration and rule of three; apostrophes for contraction, singular and plural possession; fronted adverbials followed by commas; time conjunctions; chronological order; paragraphs; fully punctuated speech with inverted commas.
The exemplar text recounting the first Moon landing can be used as a WAGOLL for pupils to examine before writing their own diary text.
Files available as PDFs and editable Word documents.
Answers for the feature identification worksheet included.
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An example explanation text entitled ‘How Do Bees Make Honey?’ plus feature identification sheet, answer sheet, and causal conjunctions and adverbials list.
This fascinating exemplar explanation text describes the process of honey-making by honeybees. Pupils read the model text as a WAGOLL before analysing it and looking for features of explanation writing. The answers to the feature identification sheet are included for easy sharing in the classroom or online if remote learning.
Pupils can then use the example explanation text as a model for their own explanation writing.
This scientific text has cross-curricular links to the following units in the science curriculum:
✎ Year 3: Plants - explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal;
✎ Year 3: Animals Including Humans - identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat;
✎ Year 4: Living Things and Their Habitats - recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways;
✎ Year 4: Animals Including Humans - construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey;
✎ Year 4: States of Matter - identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature;
✎ Year 5: Living Things and Their Habitats - describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals;
✎ Year 6: Living Things and Their Habitats - give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics;
✎ Year 6: Evolution and Inheritance - identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution.
The features found this text include:
• Chronological order with time conjunctions or adverbs
• Fronted adverbials with a comma after each
• Present tense
• Technical vocabulary
• Diagram/picture with labels
• Captions
• Cause and effect vocabulary
• Passive voice
• Singular possessive apostrophes
• Plural possessive apostrophes
• Semi-colons
• Brackets
• Dashes
All files are in editable Word format and PDF format.
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Four WAGOLL example text packs based on the novel Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White.
The bundle consists of 4 resource packs which each contain a WAGOLL related to a different section of the book.
Diary Entry Example Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Exemplar diary entry WAGOLL text
• Feature Find worksheets
• Feature Find answers
• Planning template differentiated 3 ways
Character Profile Example Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Exemplar character profile WAGOLL text
• Feature Find worksheet
• Feature Find answers
• Planning template differentiated 2 ways
• Writing template differentiated 3 ways
• Personality traits word bank
• Text extract
Newspaper Report Example Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Example newspaper report WAGOLL text
• Feature find worksheet
• Feature find answers
• Quotation punctuation activity with answers
• Newspaper report planning template
• Newspaper report writing templates x2
Non-Chronological Report Example Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Non-chronologcial report WAGOLL text
• Feature Find worksheet
• Feature Find answers
• Layout activity
• Layout answers
• Sentence Sorting activity
• Sentence Sorting answers
• Planning template
• Writing template differentiated
All resources come as Word documents and PDFs.
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Various non-chronological report WAGOLLs, activities, handouts and displays, themed around animals. Perfect for a non-chronological report writing unit in KS2.
Spider Non-Chronological Report Example Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Non-chronologcial report WAGOLL text
• Feature Find worksheet
• Feature Find answers
• Layout activity
• Layout answers
• Sentence Sorting activity
• Sentence Sorting answers
• Planning template
• Writing template differentiated
Gila Monster Non-Chronological Report Example Text Pack
Resources provided:
• Non-chronologcial report WAGOLL text
• Non-chronologcial report Feature Find worksheet differentiated x3
• Non-chronologcial report Feature find answers
• Planning sheets differentiated x2
• Writing templates differentiated x2
• Task explanation sheet
Animal Non-Chronological Report Punctuating Sentences Tasks
Resources provided:
• Badger information text punctuation task with answers
• Hedgehogs information text punctuation task with answers
• Spiders information text punctuation task with answers
Humpback Whale Non-Chronological Report Pack
Resources provided:
• Humpback whales vocabulary sheet
• Humpback whales vocabulary wall display
• Identify features: tense and sentence types with answers
• Humpback whales matching sentences sheet with answers
• Re-order sentences: elephants, with answers
• Humpback whales organising information into paragraphs with answers
• Humpback whales planning notes
• Non-chronological report planning sheet 4 sections
• Non-chronological report planning sheet 5 sections
• Non-chronological report writing template
• Non-chronological report sentence starters
• Non-chronological report checklist
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A lesson using freeze frames and role play using the context of the Moon landing. Example recount text of Neil Armstrong’s diary from the Moon landing is used in this lesson.
Resources for a whole lesson are included:
• 11 slide Powerpoint presentation with example diary text
• Lesson plan
Suitable for Key Stage 2. Useful for cross curricular English and history/science lessons.
All documents available as PDF and easily adaptable Word/Powerpoint documents.
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Lesson teaching the features of a diary entry using the context of the Moon landing. Example text of Neil Armstrong’s diary from the Moon landings is examined in this lesson.
Whole lesson including lesson plan; lesson presentation; differentiated starter and main lesson worksheets; and diary text included.
Suitable for Key Stage 2. Useful for cross curricular English and history/science lessons.
All documents available as PDF and editable Word/Powerpoint documents.
Answers for the starter and main feature identification worksheet included.
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✦ Moon Landing Diary Writing Lesson
✦ Moon Landing Diary Editing Lesson
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In this week long unit of work about Moon landing diaries, pupils examine an example diary text written from Neil Armstrong’s point of view recounting the Moon landing, they take part in role play and learn about the Moon landing, and then plan, write and edit their own diary entries.
5 lessons with full lesson plans, differentiation, all resources and Powerpoint presentations.
Suitable for Key Stage 2. Useful for cross curricular English and history/science lessons.
All documents available as PDF and editable Word/Powerpoint documents.
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Lesson where pupils plan a diary entry using the context of the first Moon landing. Pupils to write Neil Armstrong’s diary entry recounting the events of the day.
10 separate documents are included to teach a whole lesson including:
• lesson plan
• lesson presentation
• starter worksheets
• main lesson worksheets
The worksheets include:
• information sheet
• differentiated success criteria sheets
• differentiated planning sheets
• vocabulary sheet
Answers for the starter activity (ordering of the Moon landing events) are also included.
This interesting and engaging lesson is suitable for Key Stage 2 children. Useful for cross-curricular English and history/science learning.
All documents available as PDF and editable Word/PowerPoint files.
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✦ Moon Landing Diary Editing Lesson
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Pupils write Neil Armstrong’s diary entry recounting the day of the Moon landing in this lesson.
Resources include:
• Lesson plan
• Lesson presentation
• Diary success criteria
Suitable for Key Stage 2. Useful for cross-curricular English and history/science lessons.
All documents available as PDF and editable Word/PowerPoint documents.
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✦ Moon Landing Diary Editing Lesson
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Pupils edit their Moon landing diary entries that have been previously written.
Whole lesson including lesson plan; lesson presentation; and starter and main lesson worksheets.
Suitable for Key Stage 2. Useful for cross curricular English and history/science lessons.
All documents available as PDF and editable Word/Powerpoint documents.
Answers for the starter are included.
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Lesson plans for a Moon Landing Diary unit of work.
Lesson plans for 5 days.
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An example non-chronological report text about barn spiders, the same species of spider as the character Charlotte from Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White, 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 template
• Writing template differentiated
Pupils read the model non-chronological report about barn spiders, and then examine its features; label the layout features of a non-chronological report; sort the sentences about pigs into sections; and plan and write their own non-chronological report using the templates. Pupils can create the information text about one of the animals from the book, such as a spider, pig, goose or sheep. 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/diagrams with captions
• Rule of three
• Alliteration
• Present tense
• Questions
• Expanded noun phrases
• Fronted adverbials followed by commas
• Relative clauses
• Co-ordinating conjunctions
• Subordinating conjunctions
• Synonyms to avoid repetition
• Question marks
• Commas in a list
• Apostrophes for possession
• Brackets
• Colons
• Hyphens
• Dashes
The resources are available as PDFs and editable Word documents.
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An example non-chronological text about barn spiders, 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 template
• Writing template differentiated
Pupils read the model non-chronological report about barn spiders, and then examine its features; label the layout features of a non-chronological report on the sheet; sort the sentences about another animal into sections; and plan and write their own non-chronological report using the templates. Pupils can create the information text about the same or different type of spider, or an animal of their choice. These activities can be carried out over several lessons.
Structural, language, grammar & punctuation features in the model text:
• Heading
• Subheadings
• Introduction
• Bullet points
• Glossary section
• Paragraphs
• Pictures/diagrams with captions
• Rule of three
• Alliteration
• Present tense
• Questions
• Expanded noun phrases
• Fronted adverbials followed by commas
• Relative clauses
• Co-ordinating & subordinating conjunctions
• Synonyms to avoid repetition
• Question marks
• Commas in a list
• Apostrophes for possession
• Brackets
• Colons
• Hyphens
• Dashes
This scientific text has cross-curricular links to the science curriculum:
✎ Year 3: Animals Including Humans - identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat
✎ Year 4: Living Things and Their Habitats - recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways
✎ Year 4: Animals Including Humans - construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey
✎ Year 5: Living Things and Their Habitats - describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals
✎ Year 6: Living Things and Their Habitats - give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics
✎ Year 6: Evolution and Inheritance - identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution
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A pack of twelve non-chronological report resources, including vocabulary, features, planning and writing sheets and activities, themed around humpback whales.
The following resources are included:
Humpback Whales Vocabulary
Vocabulary about humpback whales. This resource can be used in two ways to familiarise pupils with the subject specific vocabulary: 1) cut out and match the words, definitions and images; 2) use as a word mat during the planning and writing process.
Humpback Whales Vocabulary Wall Display
Display the key words and matching images around the classroom with this resource.
Identify Features: Tense and Sentence Types
Pupils identify different sentence types and tenses from an example introduction and Did you know? section from a non-chronological report about giant pandas. With answers.
Humpback Whales Matching Sentences
Match the beginning and ends of sentences about whales. This activity makes pupils familiar with the sentence structure of a non-chronological report and facts associated with whales. They then order the sentences, identify the relative clauses and finally write about humpback whales. With answers.
Re-Order Sentences Elephants
Organise the sentences about elephants into the appropriate section. Then order the sentences to make a paragraph. With answers.
Humpback Whales Organising Information Into Paragraphs
Three paragraphing activities: firstly, identify which section each fact about whales belongs in; secondly, write a paragraph using the facts provided; lastly, draw a diagram using information provided. With answers.
Humpback Whales Notes to Plan
Pupils organise notes about whales and into a planning grid. The answers are provided. A larger planning grid is also provided to add additional notes from pupils’ own research.
Non-Chronological Report Planning Sheet 4 Sections
A planning sheet for a non-chronological report with title, introduction and four additional paragraphs.
Non-Chronological Report Planning Sheet 5 Sections
See above, with five additional paragraphs.
Non-Chronological Report Writing Template
A template to use to write a non-chronological report. It includes sections for the title, introduction, four sections with subheadings, diagram and picture.
Non-Chronological Report Sentence Starters
A handout to use when writing a non-chronological report containing useful sentence starters.
Non-Chronological Report Checklist
A checklist to use when writing a non-chronological report.
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