Non-Chronological Report unit of work - Harry Potter

Aimed at Year 5/6, this unit or work looks at a range of skills needed to compose effective non-chronological reports.
Includes an example NCR on Hippogriffs to be used as a model text, hot and cold task unit targets, Smart Notebook slides.

12 lessons in this unit for Non-Chronological Reports. Content can be tweaked to focus on certain aspects of HP.
We used a trip to the Warner Bros Studio Tour to research and collect information about Harry Potter.
You may wish to add an extra lesson or two creating a lesson through research of books/internet to help develop note taking, etc.

Lessons/LIs:
Cold task: To write a NCR.
To explore a non-chronological report (ERIC)
To explore language and structural features of a non-chronological report.
To compose effective and concise introductory paragraphs.
To construct compound sentences using coordinating conjunctions.
STAND ALONE ‘Extended Write’ - (focus on modal verbs)
To start my sentences in different ways.
To write well structured paragraphs.
To plan a NCR.
Hot Task: To write a NCR. (You may want to do this over two lessons to ensure content and quality).
To edit and improve my writing.
To publish a piece of work.