Unit:1 Non Fiction- Reports Date: Year group:3

Key Learning Objectives: Explain process or present information, ensuring that items are clearly sequenced, relevant details are included and accounts are ended effectively.
Identify and make notes of the main points of section(s) of text. Identify how different texts are organised, including reference texts, magazines and leaflets, on paper and on screen.Identify
features that writers use to provoke readers' reactions. Write non-narrative texts using structures of different text-types. Select and use a range of technical and descriptive vocabulary .Use
layout, format, graphics and illustrations for different purposes .Signal sequence, place and time to give coherence . Compose sentences using adjectives, verbs and nouns for precision, clarity
and impact .Clarify meaning through the use of exclamation marks and speech marks .Write with consistency in the size and proportion of letters and spacing within and between words, using
the correct formation of handwriting joins. Identify the presentational features used to communicate the main points in a broadcast. Identify key sections of an informative broadcast, noting how
the language used signals changes or transitions in focus. Write with consistency in the size and proportion of letters and spacing within and between words, using the correct formation of
handwriting joins.
Group related material into paragraphs. Show relationships of time, reason and cause through subordination and connectives. Write with consistency in the size and proportion of letters and
spacing within and between words, using the correct formation of handwriting joins. Write with consistency in the size and proportion of letters and spacing within and between words, using the
correct formation of handwriting joins.
Learning Outcome for unit:

Assessment Guided
Session Shared learning and teaching Independent learning Plenary
criteria learning
Arrange a selection of fiction and non-fiction Discuss and then define what a Spelling Time Phonics
books on the carpet. Ask the children to think connective is. Children to use the connectives lessons 4x
of ways that they could sort them. ‘Tudor Britain’ non fiction booklet. activity. 15 mins see
As a class revise the differences between Use the connectives time, cause separate
fiction and non-fiction by identifying common and person ppt and ask the plan.
1 features and sorting into groups. children to locate examples from
the text. Guided
SEN- to have a photocopy of Reading
page and highlight the Henry VIII
connectives. text.

Assemble several different sources of Determiners activity ppt Arrange determiner

information on a particular subject including Identify and discuss what a post its into a
reference books and ICT sources. Use determiner is. spidergram,
language of classification and secure the use Children to use reading books to clarifying its
of appropriate determiners. identify determiners from a list. purpose.
Children to try to
2 define what a
determiner is to
their talk partner.
Demonstrate how to locate specific Children can find a key word As a class, note the Find a key
information using contents, index, headings, using an index and then locate main points. word using an
subheadings, page numbers. Demonstrate the relevant information on a index and then
how to identify the main points in passages of page. locate the
text by underlining and then making a list. Children use the Index page of relevant
3 Contrast note-making with writing sentences. Tudors ppt book information on
Index investigation a page
(teacher
observation,
self-
assessment).
 Demonstrate how to read and navigate an ICT Give the children a copy of a
text. Compare the way information is paper based text and an ICT text
presented and identify different presentational http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/t
4 devices. udorhackney/localhistory/loch.as
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and ask them to locate the
different types of punctuation.
Handwriting
ee, ea words focusing on the joins between the
two letters.
Guided reading session. 1x group at a time
5 with the teacher whilst other children complete
handwriting activity.