Unit: Instructional Text
Date: 24th September 2012
Learning outcome for phase: To be able to write a set of instructions
Year Group: 4
Session
/L.I
Monday
Quick starter/warm up
games
Recap the fractured
fairy tales writer’s tool
kit and ask children to
retell their fractured
fairy tale.
Shared learning and teaching
Independent/
Guided Learning
Assessed piece of writing – Own fractured fairy tale, use story mountain to plan and then write their
fairytale.
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
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?
A: As above.
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.
Thursday
I can use
known patterns
to create new
texts
I can write a set
of instructions
Friday
I can write a set
Play ‘crazy
instructions’ like how
to cook a rainbow
(TFW book page 73)
Practise the actions for
time connectives
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.
Using story map drawn on 4 pieces of flip chart paperrecite 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.
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.
Sequencing the textprovide the whole text
Respond to teacher’s comment.
Recite the text to each other, play tennis half the class
Plenary
Check their work
through carefully.
Practise using
some of the TFW
actions to tell
their partner the
instructions they
have written.
B.A: Using pictures and given captions
match the pictures to the captions and put
in correct order.
A.A: Children to write the introduction and
what you will need.
A: Children to write the introduction and
what you will need.
B.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.A: Write what you will need and final
note of warning
A: Write what you will need and final note
of warning
B.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.A: Without using their literacy books,
write and decorate a set of instructions
How much of the
text could they
Not
achieved
Exceeded
of instructions
about
mummification
of ‘How to make a
Hawkboy’ and ask
children to sequence
it.
on one side and half the class on the other. Winner is
the side who doesn’t make a mistake (1 Westie each).
about mummification
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.
remember
without using
their literacy
books?