Year 4 non chronological report/ persuasive writing - Animal Classification Ebook

The Vertebrate’s Guide to Animal Classification - Ebook

Niftynonfiction - ‘Animal Classification’ and Non-chronological report/persuasive text (Year 4)

This brochure-style teaching resource is a combination of a non-chronological report and persuasive writing, modeling the Text Features of each. It also models the use of Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling Patterns at a Year 4 level.

This book has cross-curricular links to the ‘Living Things and their Habitats’ topic from the Year 4 science curriculum, offering opportunities to reinforce learning of the unit, and providing writing opportunities to show understanding of the curriculum’s content.

Photocopiable pages of a species model text (Grey Wolf) are provided at the end of the book, with an annotated teacher’s guide, showing the Text Features, Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling Patterns used.

The National Curriculum statements covered, include:

Science - Living Things and their Habitats (Year 4)

Pupils should be taught to:

• recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways

• explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment

English, Writing - Composition (Year 4)

Pupils should be taught to plan their writing by:

• discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar.

Pupils should be taught to draft and write by:

• organising paragraphs around a theme

• in non-narrative material, using simple organisational devices [for example, headings and sub-headings].

English, Writing - Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation (Year 4)

Pupils should be taught to develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English Appendix 2 by:

• extending the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions, including: when, if, because, although

• using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to express time and cause

• using fronted adverbials.

Pupils should be taught to indicate grammatical and other features by:

• using commas after fronted adverbials

• use and understand the grammatical terminology in English Appendix 2 accurately and appropriately when discussing their writing and reading.

Suggested writing outcomes:

• Write own persuasive non-chronological report for a vertebrate species of your choice

• Write own persuasive non-chronological report for a class of invertebrates e.g. Arthropods, Molluscs, etc.