Y6 Non-chronological report- Charles Darwin

National curriculum content

• Identifying the audience for and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models for their own.
• Noting and developing initial ideas, drawing on reading and research where necessary.
• In writing narratives, considering how authors have developed characters and settings in what pupils have read, listened to or seen performed.
• Selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary, understanding how such choices can change and enhance meaning.
• In narratives, describing settings, characters and atmosphere and integrating dialogue to convey character and advance the action.
• Using a wide range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs.
• Proposing changes to vocabulary, grammar and punctuation to enhance effects and clarify meaning.
• Ensuring the consistent and correct use of tense throughout a piece of writing.
• Ensuring correct subject and verb agreement when using singular and plural, distinguishing between the language of speech and writing and choosing the appropriate register.
• Proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors.

Lesson objectives

• To read and internalise the model text
• To identify and define new vocabulary
• To understand the structure of a non-chronological report
• To generate effective sentences for a non-chronological report opener
• To generate effective sentences for a non-chronological report
• To use direct address
• To use cause and effect conjunctions
• To contribute to a shared write
• To innovate the model text with own ideas
• To write independently using the skills taught

What we want children to know and the skills necessary to achieve this:

• How to write for a range of purposes and audiences
• Effective ways of describing characters, settings and atmosphere
• How to create cohesion within and between paragraphs
• How to use dialogue to convey the character and advance the action

• Proofread and check for errors
• Edit and assess the effectiveness of own writing
• Plan their own composition
• Use a logical order to sequence
• Use active and passive verbs for effect
• Use hyphens to avoid ambiguity
• Use rhetorical questions
• Securely use subordinating and coordinating conjunctions

Grammar and punctuation vocabulary

Modal verbs; sequence; sub-heading; tense; active and passive verb; hyphen; rhetorical question.

Topic vocabulary

Adaptation, evolution, fossil, inheritance, natural selection, prehistoric, trait, variety, HMS Beagle, Galapagos Islands