Whitchurch Primary School English Plans
Class 3 Y 3/4
WALT : Learning Objectives
(Main)
Write a set of instructions in the form of a recipe
I can use known patterns to create new texts.
Spring Term
'Instructions' unit Jan 5th to 14th
WILF :Success Criteria (must, should, could)
(Main)
 Must be able to map and talk through the instruction with actions. include
all the key vocabulary and concepts
 Should learn and use standard actions for connectives in map / talk phase.
Include diagrams with labels. Should use imperatives. Should be presented
in a logical order and use suitable format, vocabulary and person.
 Could include more technical language.
Key vocabulary:- Talk for Writing; cold writing; hot writing; instructions;
imperative; verbs; chronological; person; pronoun; technical; tense; magpie /
magpieing
Instruction Texts - Cold Writing
Start Instructions unit
with cold writing
Use terms 'Talk for
Writing' and 'cold / hot
writing'
During reading of 'The BFG' as a class / group reading book, stop at the dream bottles.
Children do a piece of 'cold writing' on a dream recipe.
Warming up the tune of the text
Rearrange the cut-up paragraphs of a short exemplar instruction text / recipe. In groups, read it aloud (to check it is coherent) and explain
the order.
Look at other examples of instruction text: go through them to identify imperative verbs and impersonal language.
Use Magpie (Treasure Chest) books to collect useful vocabulary.
Imitation
Introduce the text- a recipe. 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 section (paragraph).
Practise using some of the TFW actions to tell their partner the
instructions they have written.
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.
Innovation
Play ‘crazy instructions’ like how to cook a rainbow (TFW book page
73)
Practise the actions for time connectives.
Draw a series of pictures showing the preparation of a dream. Write
an instruction to go with each picture. Practise using some of the
TFW actions to tell their partner the instructions they have written.
Show how to improve simple sentences and add detail and
description.
Shared writing: Introduction and what you will need.
Independent Application
Make a boxed-up plan for the dream instructions.
Use the toolkit, magpie books etc to write a recipe for one of the BFG's
dreams.
Turn into display by making the recipe into a label for an
appropriately illustrated bottle.