Robins have been learning all about Non-Chronological Information writing. Robins identified that Non- Chronological reports are non-fiction texts, meaning they should be full of facts, detail, and information.
To apply their knowledge Robins have been writing a poster to provide information about the city in our class book, “Varjak Paw”
Robins have been enjoying the chapter book and at lunchtime Paige and Dylan asked to borrow the iPad to blog about it!
First they had to write their plans, consider the use of headings, sub-headings and paragraphs. Moreover, they needed to use their own creativity and retrieval from memory skills as current information about what The City in the book is actually like was limited .(but we will know more about it later and be writing a guide to the City for cats later !)
Following their initial planning, they then shared their plans to discuss how they could improve their writing further.
The following day Robins concentrated hard on producing their final pieces of information writing.
Extension: Can you remember all these features?
- An eye-catching heading in a large font
- An introductory paragraph
- Text split up into paragraphs and each paragraph giving a different aspect of information.
- Sub-headings for each paragraph
- Usually written in the present tense
- Lists of facts in bullet points
- Pictures of the subject
- Captions under each picture to explain what is in the picture
- Diagrams with labels
- Graphs or charts showing information about the subject
- Boxes containing interesting individual facts to grab the attention of the reader
- Technical vocabulary in bold, possibly with a glossary at the end
