“How to Make Hot Chocolate” Procedural Writing Task

When teaching young students how to write a new text type, scaffolding is the key… and plenty of it!

This flipbook has been created by our expert teacher team to guide your students in writing a procedural text to inform others how to make hot chocolate. Each page contains a particular structural feature on procedural texts for the students to fill in. These are:

• Page 1 – Ingredients
• Page 2 – Step 1: Measure
• Page 3 – Step 2: Pour
• Page 4 – Step 3: Mix
• Page 5 – Step 4: Drink

The action verb featured on each page (measure, pour, mix, drink) serves as a scaffold to support students in writing the steps of the “How to Make Hot Chocolate” procedure. Space is also provided for the students to draw a visual representation of each step.

Once the students have completed the flipbook, they might like to take their work home to see if someone in their family is able to follow their procedural writing to successfully make a hot chocolate!

Simplify This Procedural Writing Activity

Do you have learners who are not quite ready to complete a whole flipbook independently? No problems… just make this procedural writing activity a group project!

Divide your students into groups of five, then provide each student with one page of the flipbook. After making sure that each student understands where their page fits within the context of the whole procedure, have them complete the writing and drawing for their assigned page. Once all students have completed their pages, compile them together as a completed flipbook.

Download to Write a Procedure

Use the Download button above to access either the easy-print PDF or the editable Google Slides version of this procedural writing flipbook. (Note: You will be prompted to make a copy of the Google Slides template on your personal drive before accessing it.)

Instructions on how to compile the flipbook can be found on the first page of the resource.

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and a Teach Starter collaborator.

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