An example non-chronological report text about brownies, a type of faerie, inspired by the fantasy novel The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, plus two activities with answers, and planning and writing templates.
Resources provided:
• Non-chronologcial report WAGOLL text
• Feature Find worksheet
• Feature Find answers
• Layout activity
• Layout answers
• Planning template
• Writing template differentiated
Pupils read the model non-chronological report about brownies, and then examine its features; label the layout features of a non-chronological report on the sheet provided; and plan and write their own non-chronological report using the templates provided. Pupils can research and create the information text about one of the faeries from Arthur Spiderwick’s field guide, such as a brownie, boggart, goblin, dwarf, griffin, kelpie, unicorn or troll. 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
• Paragraphs
• Picture with caption
• Rule of three
• Rhetorical questions
• Present tense
• Modal verbs
• Adverbs of degree
• Conjunctive adverbs
• Relative clauses
• Co-ordinating & subordinating conjunctions
• Synonyms to avoid repetition
• Expanded noun phrases
• Question marks
• Commas in lists
• Complex lists
• Commas as parenthesis
• Possessive apostrophes
• Colons
• Semi-colons
• Brackets
The resources are available as PDFs and editable Word documents.
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