Name: Writing to Inform: Information Report Writing for Year 4-8 (Phase 2 and 3)
Brand: Top Teaching Tasks
Price: 14.99 NZD
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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