Informative Writing Teaching Resources for Year 6
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Improving Procedure Texts Worksheets
3 procedure texts for students to rewrite to make them more detailed.
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Biography Research Template
A research template for older students to use when writing a biography.
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Biography Writing Checklist – Structure, Language and Features
A checklist for students to use when proofreading and editing their biography writing.
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Assessment Rubric – Biographical Texts
An assessment rubric designed to help teachers to assess students’ biography writing.
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Sequencing Activity - Roald Dahl (Informative Text)
A sequencing task using an informative text.
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Writing Biographical Texts PowerPoint
A 29 slide editable PowerPoint template to use when teaching older students about the structure and language features of biographical texts.
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Dr Mae Jemison – Biography Structure Sorting Task
A sorting task to help students learn about the structure of a biography.
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Explanation Text Writing Task – How Does a Plane Fly?
A scaffolded writing task for students to complete when learning about the explanation text type.
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Explanation Text Writing Task – Why Do Volcanoes Erupt?
A scaffolded writing task for students to complete when learning about the explanation text type.
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Explanation Text Writing Task – How Does the Water Cycle Work?
A scaffolded writing task for students to complete when learning about the explanation text type.
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Explanation Text Writing Task – What Causes the Seasons?
A scaffolded writing task for students to complete when learning about the explanation text type.
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Biography Sentence Starters
Biographies can be interesting and fun to write... with a little bit of inspiration and help to get them started!
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Explanation Text Research Template
A research template for students to use when writing an explanation text.
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Assessment Rubric - Procedural Writing
An assessment rubric designed to help teachers to assess students' procedural writing.
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Assessment Rubric - Informative Writing
An assessment rubric designed to help teachers to assess students' informative writing.
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Informative Writing - Fact Sorting Activity
A hands-on sorting activity to use when introducing informative writing.
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Informative Texts Writing Task - Cars
A writing activity to help students construct an informative text based on factual information.
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Fact File Pack - Animals, Objects and People
A set of 6 fact files, covering a variety of topics.
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Research Skills Worksheets - Note Taking
A set of 6 worksheets to help students identify key facts, details and vocabulary when researching information.
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Writing Informative Texts PowerPoint
A 19 slide editable PowerPoint template to use when teaching your students about the structure and language features of informative texts.
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Imaginative, Persuasive and Informative Paragraphs PowerPoint
A 22 slide editable PowerPoint Template to use when teaching your students about the structure of imaginative, persuasive and informative paragraphs.
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Factual Texts Types Posters Teaching Resource Pack
A set of posters about the factual text types, including annotated examples for each.
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Writing Informative Texts Unit Plan - Year 5 and Year 6
This English unit addresses the informative text type; specifically, how to write a well-structured informative text.
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Writing Biographical Texts Unit Plan
This English unit addresses the purpose, structure and language features of the biography text type.
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Independent Writing – An Adult I Admire
A 60 minute lesson in which students will independently write a biography using appropriate text structure, language and features.
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Biographical Text Language Features
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the structure of biographical texts.
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Research Skills - Note Taking
A 60 minute lesson in which students will take appropriate notes from an informative text.
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Fact or Opinion?
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify the difference between a fact and an opinion.
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Using a Stimulus - Independent Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will independently write an informative text, using appropriate text structure, language and features.
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Applying Proofreading and Editing Skills
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply proofreading and editing skills.
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Using A Fact File - Shared Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will use a fact file and scaffolding sheet to write an informative text in pairs.
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Constructing a Paragraph - Modelled Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will correctly construct an informative paragraph.