ENGLISH LESSON: PROCEDURAL TEXT (Year R to 2)

CONTEXTUAL DETAILS

Name Melissa Hylan School

Year Level / Age Range Reception to Year 2 Date 2.11.2016 (TERM 4)
No. of Students Approx 25 Estimated Duration of Activity
Location Classroom 45 minutes

CURRICULUM OR
English
LEARNING AREA

TOPIC
Procedural text
PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
Year 1 and year 2 students have had experience with giving
directions of a procedure, using verbal language or through
demonstration. Students have followed a procedural text to
make a puppet.

LEARNING INTENTION Students will sequence a list of instructions to make a pizza.

SUCCESS CRITERIA Students will be able to make a pizza by following a procedural

text.

LEARNING POWER HABIT Striving for accuracy.

The children/students will:

SPECIFIC LEARNING
1. Sequence and construct a list of instructions to make a
OUTCOME / S
pizza, using the terminology needed in a recipe.
2. Formulate a pizza recipe using the text structure of a
procedural text.

CURRICULUM

PREPARATION / ORGANISATION
RESOURCES
 Text: Exemplars for Teaching Writing RESOURCES
 Book: Tyler Makes Pancakes & TIME
PROCESS
Pre -Preparation: (Day before to save time) 15 – 20 minutes
 Read story ‘Tyler Makes Pancakes’
Book: Tyler
Introduction: Makes Pancakes.
 Discuss with students their knowledge of a procedural text. Tyler Florence &
Craig Frazier

Questions?
What is a procedural text?
What does a procedural text tell the reader?

Development (main teaching/learning part of lesson/activity) Text:

Exemplars for
 Using the procedural text on how to make a sock puppet, identify Teaching Writing,
the features of the text: Page 28
 Title: What is the title of this procedural text?
 Goal: Where in the text does it tell us what to make or do?
 Materials: Where in the text does it tell us the materials we will
need to make the sock? (point out it is in a list form)
 Steps: Where in the text does it tell us how to make the sock
puppet? (each step begins with a new line)

25 minutes

Conclusion: reflection time

 Give students the template
 What did we do what was the procedure?
 Students get their English books out and construct a procedural
text: the recipe of how we made a pizza.
Assessment
 Students can identify and record the information that is required
for a procedure text.

Follow Up Activity/Lesson
 Make pizza; using a procedure text (recipe); cross curricular
links: Mathematics- measurement.