Informative Writing Teaching Resources for Year 1
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Exploring Simple Explanations PowerPoint
Use this Exploring Simple Explanations PowerPoint to teach your students about what explanation texts are, why they are written, and how they are structured.
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Life Cycle Explanation Project Writing Scaffold Pack
Use this project including life cycles and explanation planning templates when exploring explanations with your early years students.
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Analysing Informational Text Worksheets
Use these informational text worksheets and information text examples with your year 1 and Year 2 students to analysis text features and language features of informative texts.
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Community Helper – Digital Report Writing Activity
Use this community helpers interactive activity to model the purpose and structural elements of information reports.
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How To Build a Snow Globe – Procedural Writing Craftivity
Use this engaging, hands-on snow globe craftivity to teach your students all they need to know about procedural writing!
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How to Wash Your Hands Flipbook
Use this “How to Wash Your Hands” procedural writing activity to help familiarise your students with the structural elements of procedure texts.
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Interactive Build A Snowman Sequencing Activity
Practise sequencing and writing procedural texts with an interactive How to Build a Snowman game.
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How to Decorate a Christmas Tree - Year 1 Procedural Writing Activity
Practise sequencing and writing procedural texts with an interactive ‘How to Decorate a Christmas Tree’ slide deck and differentiated writing prompts for Year 1 students.
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Remembrance Day Write the Room Activity
Help your young students understand the meaning of Remembrance Day with a Remembrance Day Vocabulary wall and Writing Center.
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Spring-Themed Informative Writing Prompt (Plus Display)
Celebrate a new season and your budding writers with a new Spring classroom display and informative writing prompt.
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Dia De Los Muertos Word Wall and Informative Writing Stimulus
Learn and use the language of Mexican tradition with a Dia de Los Muertos vocabulary word wall and informational writing prompt.
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Fire Safety for Kids - Procedural Writing Prompts
Ignite your students' knowledge of fire safety and informative writing with printable fire safety writing prompt worksheets.
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How to Be a Grandparent - Grandparents' Day Writing Prompts
Draw and write to create a fun “How to Be a Grandparent” handbook to share with loved ones on Grandparents’ Day.
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Write About It! Pumpkins - Differentiated Writing Prompts
Differentiate writing instruction in year 1 with a group of levelled informational writing prompts about pumpkins.
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King Charles III Biography Template - Mobile
Research and learn about King Charles III with this hanging biography template.
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Easter Vocabulary Cards and Writing Station
Get writing with this Easter-themed writing pack for the early years.
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Easter Bunny Craft & Writing Activity
Make writing exciting this holiday season with this one-of-a-kind Easter Bunny classroom resource!
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Earth Day Craft and Write
Create a fabulous Earth Day display with a printable Earth Day craft activity.
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St. Patrick's Day Illustrated Vocabulary Word Wall
Help your young students learn and write about St. Patrick’s Day with an illustrated word wall and writing prompts.
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How to Decorate a Christmas Tree Worksheet
Complete this cute Christmas worksheet all about how to decorate a Christmas tree.
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How to Carve a Pumpkin - Accordion Book
Get crafty and inspire potential pumpkin carvers to write with a “How to Carve a Pumpkin” accordion book.
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Picture Writing Prompts
Introducing the perfect picture writing prompts to encourage creative writing in your primary students! Explore 60 visual prompts made just for the primary classroom.
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Procedural Texts - Text Structure
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the structure of procedures.
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Independent Writing - How to Make Bush Stew
A 60 minute lesson in which students will independently write a recipe for bush stew.
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Procedural Texts - Language Features
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the language features of procedures.
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Instruct Me!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore how procedures provide instructions about completing a task.
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Simon Says!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore action verbs, common nouns and adverbial phrases in procedures.
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Publishing a Recipe Book
A 60 minute lesson in which students will publish a simple recipe for bush stew.
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Modelled Writing - How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth
A 60 minute lesson in which students will jointly construct a simple procedure about a familiar experience.
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Guided Writing - How To Make Fruit Salad
A 60 minute lesson in which students will jointly construct a simple recipe for fruit salad in small groups.
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Exploring Procedural Texts Unit Plan
This English unit has been designed to introduce procedural texts to younger students. It addresses the purpose, structure and language features of instructions and recipes.