Writing non-fiction (upper KS2)

Hone your children’s writing skills for a range of non-fiction texts with our time-saving pack.

The pack includes activities and exemplars to consolidate your children’s understanding of how to write biographies, non-chronological reports and texts to persuade, explain, instruct and discuss.

What's included?

• 46 quality resources, including answer sheets where relevant
• PowerPoint presentations to accompany each non-fiction type
• opportunities to introduce, practise and consolidate key grammar elements
• includes starters, main activities, plenaries, assessment opportunities, extension ideas and home learning tasks
• links to the curriculum.

What's inside?

Introduction (page 3)

Instructional writing (pages 4-34)

• Session 1 – Why do games need instructions?
• Session 2 – Shared reading
• Session 3 – Planning a set of instructions
• Session 4 – Modelled writing
• Session 5 – Explaining and writing instructions
• Assessment sheet – instructions
• Exemplar text – instructions
• PowerPoint resource: Instructional writing
• Group task – what makes a good set of instructions?
• Home learning – what makes a good set of instructions?
• What are the features?
• Home learning – punctuation collector
• Sequencing instructions
• Planning instructions
• Gingerbread Fred
• Snakes and Ladders
• Colons, semi-colons and commas

Recounts - biographies (pages 35-58)

• Session 1 – What are the features of a biography?
• Session 2 – Planning a biography
• Session 3 – Shared writing – the introduction and early life
• Session 4 – Writing a biography – early career, achievements and personal life
• Session 5 – Completing and evaluating your biography
• Assessment sheet – biographies
• Exemplar text – Inasu Blot Biography
• PowerPoint resource: Recounts – biographies
• Features of a biography
• What should a biography include?
• Paragraph planner – biography

Explanatory writing (pages 59-86)

• Session 1 – Creating questions
• Session 2 – What are the features of an explanation text?
• Session 3 – Planning an explanation
• Session 4 – Modelled writing
• Session 5 – Modelled writing
• Assessment sheet – explanations
• What are the features?
• Why are mermaids strong swimmers?
• PowerPoint resource: Explanatory writing
• Home learning – devising questions
• Causal connectives
• Planning an explanation
• Embedding relative clauses sheet

Persuasive writing (pages 87-113)

• Session 1 – Holiday brochures
• Session 2 – Shared reading
• Session 3 – Planning a non-chronological report
• Session 4 – Modelled writing
• Session 5 – Modelled writing
• Assessment sheet – persuasive writing
• Exemplar text – persuasive holiday report - The Grand Imperial Hotel - the most charming hotel in the land!
• PowerPoint resource: Persuasive writing
• Important holiday information
• Why would you choose this holiday?
• Persuasive or informative?
• Planning a holiday brochure
• Holiday images

Discussion texts (pages 114-128)

• Session 1 – Let’s debate!
• Session 2 – Using the semi-colon
• Session 3 – Shared reading
• Session 4 – Modelled writing
• Session 5 – Modelled writing
• Assessment sheet – discussion texts
• Exemplar text - Should primary age children be allowed to use mobile phones? – discussion
• PowerPoint resource: Discussion texts
• Good questions
• Contrasting conjunctions
• Certainty of an event cards
• The nine modal verbs
• Home learning – modal verbs
• Home learning – contentious issues