Climate Change - Non-Fiction Unit

Climate Change - Non-Fiction Unit

(5 lesson, 83-slide PowerPoint presentation with 19 worksheets)

This unit of work uses the topic of climate change to help develop key non-fiction reading and writing skills at UKS2 and lower KS3. It introduces climate change through text, video and diagrams and contains a range of differentiated reading and writing activities.

Contents include:

• Differentiated reading comprehension activities (Gold, Silver and Bronze)

• Exploring the features of non-chronological reports (layout, language, facts and statistics)

• Planning, editing and writing a non-chronological report

• Writing a letter (formal and non-formal writing, layout and language, audience and purpose)

• Developing key spelling skills within the context of the unit

• Creating a news report (layout, language, audience, etc) about climate change

• Writing to persuade – exploring persuasive advertisements and creating a persuasive ad