Unit: Instructional Text Date: 24th September 2012 Year Group: 4

Learning outcome for phase: To be able to write a set of instructions

Session
/L.I / Quick starter/warm up games / Shared learning and teaching / Independent/
Guided Learning / Plenary / Not achieved / Exceeded
Monday / Recap the fractured fairy tales writer’s tool kit and ask children to retell their fractured fairy tale. / Assessed piece of writing – Own fractured fairy tale, use story mountain to plan and then write their fairytale. / Check their work through carefully.
Tuesday
I know the features of an information text
I can order the events of mummification / Sort the imperatives/time connectives/adverbs
Give a mixture of words, sort as quickly as possible / What can the children remember about mummification?
Introduce the text- How to mummify a pharaoh. Introduce the idea of TFW and learning actions and reciting the text as a whole class. Get the children to stand up and recite the text one line at a time using the actions and try and remember as much of the text as possible. Introduce the idea of stepping for each new paragraph.
Start a writer’s tool kit- what are the features of instructions that we need to know in order to write a set of instructions? Pick apart the text to help write this tool kit in the children’s words. / A.A: Using pictures showing the process of mummification order the pictures and then write an instruction to go with each picture. Must use time connectives & imperatives. Can they use adverbs? / Practise using some of the TFW actions to tell their partner the instructions they have written.
A: As above.
B.A: Using pictures and given captions match the pictures to the captions and put in correct order.
Wednesday
I can use known patterns to create new texts
I can write a set of instructions / Provide a set of instructions that is muddled up. Children to sort the instructions into order as quickly as possible. / Using story map drawn on 4 pieces of flip chart paper- recite the instructions with actions.
Play changing the sentence on the w/b. Pick sentences from the text and show how we could change them so that they mean the same thing but are written differently. Are you tired of kings being left around rotting in the hot African sun? Are you fed up with the smell of dead kings (lingering) in the air?
Show how to improve simple sentences and add detail and description.
Shared writing: Introduction and what you will need. / A.A: Children to write the introduction and what you will need. / Children to read each others and check that they have followed the structure.
A: Children to write the introduction and what you will need.
B.A:
Children to write the introduction and what you will need.
Thursday
I can use known patterns to create new texts
I can write a set of instructions / Play ‘crazy instructions’ like how to cook a rainbow (TFW book page 73)
Practise the actions for time connectives / Respond to teacher’s comment.
Recite the text with the class, try and take the support away so that the children are saying the text and you are just doing the actions.
Shared writing: What you will need and final not of warning. / A.A: Write what you will need and final note of warning / Try and ‘act out’ their instructions whilst reading them to a talk partner
A: Write what you will need and final note of warning
B.A: Write what you will need and final note of warning
Friday
I can write a set of instructions about mummification / Sequencing the text- provide the whole text of ‘How to make a Hawkboy’ and ask children to sequence it. / Respond to teacher’s comment.
Recite the text to each other, play tennis half the class on one side and half the class on the other. Winner is the side who doesn’t make a mistake (1 Westie each). / A.A: Without using their literacy books, write and decorate a set of instructions about mummification / How much of the text could they remember without using their literacy books?
A: Without using their literacy books, write and decorate a set of instructions about mummification
B.A: Trying not to use their literacy books write and decorate a set of instructions about mummification.