A “How to Make a Sandwich” Procedure Text

One of the best ways to ensure that your students can create high-quality procedure texts is to provide them with high-quality examples as scaffolds!

This procedural writing activity has been designed to help your students better understand the purpose, structure and language features of procedures by engaging with a well-structured and well-written example text. This two-page text called “How to Make a Sandwich” models how to write a successful procedure text, including all the key features such as a “how to” statement, ingredients, equipment and the method (presented in a series of numbered steps). After reading the example procedure, the students are required to write a procedure for their favourite sandwich using the writing scaffold provided.

A Ready-to-Go Procedural Writing Lesson

The beauty of this resource is that you can easily build an entire lesson on procedural writing around it. Here is how one of our experienced teachers would use this resource:

1. Distribute the resource to the students. To save paper, you might like to project the example text on your interactive whiteboard.
2. Read through the “How to Make a Sandwich” procedure as a class.
3. Discuss the effectiveness of the procedure. Did the steps seem easy to follow?
4. Spend some time analysing the language used in the text. Have students colour-code grammatical features such as action verbs, adverbs and adverbial phrases.
5. Discussion time! What types of sandwiches do your students like to eat? Create a mind map of the students’ favourites.
6. Have the students write a procedure for their favourite sandwich using the writing scaffold provided in the resource.
7. Once complete, have students swap their procedures with a partner. Peers could rate the procedure based on how easy they think it would be to follow.

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