Writing to Inform: Information Report Writing for Year 4-8 (Phase 2 and 3)
NZ$14.99
Description
This all-inclusive resource pack equips educators with the essential tools for teaching information report writing.
This writing resource is designed to support teachers to teach Writing to Inform: Informative Reports from Phase 2 (Years 4, 5 and 6) and Phase 3 (Year 7-8) of Te Mātaiaho: English in the New Zealand curriculum.
It includes:
- Teaching slides introducing:
- The purpose and audience of an informative report.
- Structure of an informative report.
- Detailed information about the structure of an informative report including example sentences and paragraphs.
- Visual elements of an informative report
- Features of an informative report: Precise and Topic-Specific Vocabulary.
- Features of an informative report: Linking words and phrases.
- A detailed exemplar, which is unpacked and annotated for structure, content and vocabulary.
- A scaffolded graphic organiser for any Phase 2 informative report.
- Two extra graphic organisers, as alternatives, for any Phase 2 informative report.
- 8 additional creative and engaging writing experiences and prompts for teaching informative report writing.
- An extra challenge set of resources based around newspaper reporting and superheroes (20 pages in total)
- A full “Teaching Students How to Note Take” to help students take notes and summarise research into their own words (print and digital)
- Sentence Starter and Transition Word Banks for Information Report writing
This teaching resource will support your teaching of the Writing to Inform section of the Phase 2 and 3 English curriculum.
