Literacy Planning Year 6 English Newspaper Reports Instructional Writing

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Sample planning: Reading as a Reader

Introduction

Discuss the purpose of instructions, what could they be used for? Allow the children to discuss for 1 minute the different types of instructions that there are that they know of. Take feedback and write on spider diagram. Inform the children that they are going to be going through several types of instructions over the next couple of days and analysing them as a reader. What made them successful for them, what they would have done differently etc.

Main Activity

Discuss the ‘Witches Fingers Recipe’ with the children, What do they notice straight away that is useful for us as readers? Annotate on WB.

Inform them that we are now going to create these treats reflecting on the information provided and how useful it was for us as readers.

Split the class into 2 groups - Create the treats – discussing the instructions as they go along.

Ask the children to complete the reflection sheet in pairs.

Discuss the instructions with the children and their reflection sheets, what made them successful? What would they have done better? Why? How would it have changed these instructions?

Were the children ablet o follow the instructions?

Were they able to evaluate the effectiveness of these instructions as a reader?

Were they able to identify some of the key features that made them effective, such as the layout etc?

Introduction

Remind the children that they are evaluating instructions as a reader. Inform them that today, they are going to be evaluating different card game instructions and their effectiveness. Also that we are not to support them, as they need to evaluate them themselves and they are going to tell me whether they were effective instructions at the end of the lesson and why.

Main Activity

Children are to be in mixed ability reading pairs, read through the instructions and follow the instructions independently and play the card games. Carousel the pairs to the different games, allowing them 10 minutes at each activity.