Writing to Inform: Information Report Writing for Year 4-8 (Phase 2 and 3)
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:
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Teaching slides introducing:
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The purpose and audience of an informative report.
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Structure of an informative report.
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Detailed information about the structure of an informative report including example sentences and paragraphs.
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Visual elements of an informative report
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Features of an informative report: Precise and Topic-Specific Vocabulary.
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Features of an informative report: Linking words and phrases.
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A detailed exemplar, which is unpacked and annotated for structure, content and vocabulary.
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A scaffolded graphic organiser for any Phase 2 informative report.
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Two extra graphic organisers, as alternatives, for any Phase 2 informative report.
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8 additional creative and engaging writing experiences and prompts for teaching informative report writing.
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An extra challenge set of resources based around newspaper reporting and superheroes (20 pages in total)
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A full “Teaching Students How to Note Take” to help students take notes and summarise research into their own words (print and digital)
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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.
