Nonchronological reports Does anyone know what a nonchronological
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Nonchronological reports Does anyone know what a nonchronological report is?
Monday: • Revise the features and purpose of non-chronological reports. • Collect information about Ancient Egypt using the comprehensions and your own research. • Look at the checklist and ensure you know how to use all of the techniques.
Purpose: • Non-chronological reports don’t have to be read in any order. • Aim to give us information on a topic. • Written to give other people information. • Useful for studying things we don’t know a lot about. • Written in paragraphs. • Contain an introduction, main body and final paragraph. • Reports contain specific features.
What do you think the features are? Look at the following example of a non-chronological report. Introduction Present Tense & In your groups, do you think you know what Third the features used person might be? Try to. Subidentify them. headings Main informatio n Pictures/Diagram s
Features of a non-chronological report: n o ucti d ? o t r u t o n b I a t r o p e r e h is t What Main information - Sub-he adings Sepa rate yo ur info - rmatio n. Present Tense - Facts about your topic. Imagine it is happening now. Third P Use he erson - , she, i t, etc. s m iagra D / s e ? r e u k t i l c i k P o o l t i s e o d t Wha
Ancient Egypt: We are going to write our own report on Ancient Egypt. Before we start, you need to collect the information to help you write. There are some comprehensions for you to complete. You may choose to write about these areas or you may want to research your own
This is the checklist for your writing. Read through it so you are clear from the start what techniques you will need to include.
Tuesday: Planning. Look at the planning grid on the next slide. Add in all of the information you will need to include. You may need to research further. This plan only has 2 paragraphs but you can have as many as you want.
This planning grid helps to show you may choose the layout of your report. Before you start to write you need to decide on your subheadings and research your information.
Wednesday: • Report writing day. • Make sure that you have planned well before you start. • Remember, each paragraph needs a minimum of 5 sentences. • Use technical vocabulary about Ancient Egypt.