INFORMATIVE WRITING2014TERM 2

WALT UNDERSTAND THE PURPOSE OF INFORMATIVE TEXTS• What is writing to inform? What text types are there? • What sort of language do we use? • What sort of illustrations do we use? • How is informative writing different to narrative and recount?

COME UP WITH A LIST OF WHY….? PROMPTS FOR WRITING.

WALHT USE SPECIFIC NOUNS WHEN WRITING TO INFORM.• Why use specific vocabulary?• Dog:• Bird:• Car:• Fruit:

• Worksheet – precise nouns/specific nouns

THE BEST NEST A nest is a birds house which birds live in. They have to make it nice and cosy for the soon-coming egg.

The contents of the nest include straw, hay, wheat, hair, stuffing (wool) and drinking straws.

The nest is warm therefore the egg is happy. The nest is in a high place, so predators cant get it.

It works by acting like a heater to warm the egg to make is faster to hatch.

The nest is a unique thing it is essential for birds

TASK

• Pick one of the writing prompts we brainstormed and have a go at writing an explanation.• Focus on Specific Vocabulary.

WALHT USE TIME CONNECTIVES IN OUR WRITING.

Read the following explanation example and think about the TIME words that connect the story together and keep it in order.

HOW A SPIDER’S WEB FORMSA spider web looks delicate but it is very STONG. It can hold 4000 times a spider’s weight. But how does it form?

First the spider spins a thread of silk. The thread gets bloan over to a branch by the wind. Then she makes another two threads and makes a Y shape. Next she makes more threads and they look like spokes of a weel. Then the spider goes in a spirl, out and back in, sits in the middle and waits for food.

This is how a web is formed.

WRITE THE WORDS USED IN THE NEST TEXT, BRAINSTORM SOME MORE WE COULD USE:

TASK

• Pick one of the writing prompts we brainstormed and have a go at writing an explanation.• Focus on Specific Vocabulary.

WALHT STRUCTURE AN EXPLANATION.

• CUT AND PASTE – put the story back in order.• What does an explanation look like?• What comes first:• What comes next:• What comes at the end:

TASK

• Pick one of the writing prompts we brainstormed and have a go at writing an explanation.• Focus on Specific Vocabulary.

WALHT USE APPROPRIATE TEXT FEATURES.• How do bees pollinate?• Look at diagram. What can you see:• How does it help us understand the topic: • Link diagram to text:

SEARCH ON THE WEB FOR SOME DIFFERENT KINDS OF TEXT FEATURES ABOUT BEES, INSERT AT LEAST 3 BELOW, WRITE ABOUT HOW THEY ADD INFORMATION TO THE TEXT.

TASK

• Pick one of the writing prompts we brainstormed and have a go at writing an explanation.• Focus on Specific Vocabulary.

EXPLORING TEXT: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU ARE ASLEEP?

TASK

• Pick one of the writing prompts we brainstormed and have a go at writing an explanation.• Focus on Specific Vocabulary.