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Primary Deputy Head Teacher with over 20 years experience sharing my resources to make your life a bit easier. Currently teaching in Year 1 with experience across EYFS, KS1 and KS2.
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Primary Deputy Head Teacher with over 20 years experience sharing my resources to make your life a bit easier. Currently teaching in Year 1 with experience across EYFS, KS1 and KS2.
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Writing for a Purpose: Exploring Non-Fiction Genres KS2+
“Writing for a Purpose: Exploring Non-Fiction Genres” is a comprehensive learning resource designed to assist Key Stage 2+ students in understanding and mastering 10 forms of writing. This resource covers a range of genres, including Diary Recounts, News Report Recounts, Film Reviews, Balanced Arguments, Non-chronological Reports, Tourism Information Posters, Adverts and Instructions.
The resource provides an in-depth exploration of each genre, highlighting their key features and attributes. For example, Imagery Poems are described as a form of expression that uses sensory language to create vivid images in the reader’s mind. The other genres are similarly explained, with examples and exemplars provided to help students understand how to construct effective pieces of writing.
Teachers can use this resource to introduce each genre, provide guidance on how to create effective pieces of writing, and offer examples for students to follow. The resource is ideal for use in English lessons, but can also be applied to other subjects to encourage and scaffold writing.
Overall, “Writing for a Purpose: Exploring Non-Fiction Genres” is an invaluable resource for students looking to improve their writing skills and understand different forms of writing.
Writing for a Purpose: Tourism Advert Overview
“Writing for a Purpose: Tourism Advert” is a learning resource designed to support children in Key Stage 2 in understanding the main features and purposes of creating a tourism information poster.
The resource includes a detailed explanation of the type of writing and its main features. It explains that a tourism information poster is a visual and informative representation of a particular tourist destination, designed to attract visitors and provide them with the necessary information about the location. The main features of this type of writing include using persuasive language to engage the reader, clear and concise information about the destination, appealing visuals such as images and graphics, and an overall attractive layout.
The resource also includes a ‘real-life’ example of a tourism information poster to demonstrate how the features of this type of writing should look like in practice. The example poster includes appealing images of the destination, clear and concise information about the location, and persuasive language to encourage visitors to explore the destination.
The resource can be used as a tool when learning about the genre of writing in English lessons, as it provides a clear understanding of the key features of tourism information posters, and how to create an effective poster. Teachers can use the resource to introduce the topic, provide guidance on how to create a poster and provide examples for children to follow.
Additionally, this resource can also be used to support scaffold writing across the curriculum. For example, children can use the knowledge and skills they have learned from creating a tourism information poster to create similar posters for other subjects, such as science or geography, by applying the key features of a tourism poster to create a visual and informative representation of a scientific concept or a geographical location.
Overall, “Writing for a Purpose: Tourism Advert” is a valuable resource that can support children in developing their writing skills, as well as their understanding of the different genres of writing.