Learning the features of a non-chronological report on nocturnal animals | English

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Every sentence should start with a...
- capital letter. ✓
- full stop.
- comma.
Where should you place a full stop in a sentence?
- at the start
- at the end ✓
- in the middle
What text type is a report?
- fiction
- non-fiction ✓
- poem
Fiction texts are...
- made-up stories. ✓
- about real things.
- a mixture of made-up and real.
Which of these is a type of non-fiction text?
- poems
- instructions ✓
- plays
The main job of a report is to give the reader...
- a story.
- information. ✓
- a list of numbers.

Select the missing word. The simplest way to organise texts is into two categories: non-fiction and ....
- books.
- words.
- fiction. ✓
Which of these is a type of fiction text?
- poems ✓
- instructions
- newspaper
Which of these is a type of non-fiction text?
- plays
- poems
- reports ✓
What does 'chronological' mean?
- the route to get to a place
- the ideas that a writer has in their head
- the order in which something happens ✓
What does 'non-chronological' mean?
- out of time order ✓
- fiction
- the order that something happens
Put these instructions of making a jam sandwich in chronological order.
- 1
  
  ⇔
  
  Gather your ingredients
- 2
  
  ⇔
  
  Spread butter onto the bread
- 3
  
  ⇔
  
  Spread jam onto the bread
- 4
  
  ⇔
  
  Put one slice of bread on top of the other
- 5
  
  ⇔
  
  Cut the sandwich
- 6
  
  ⇔
  
  Eat the sandwich

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Non-chronological reports are non-fiction.
Non-chronological reports often have titles, subheadings and paragraphs.
An introduction followed by two paragraphs of information is how we can structure a non-chronological report.
A non-chronological report must be written in a formal tone, avoiding language choices associated with fiction writing.
Contractions are not used in formal writing.

Pupils may find the vocabulary of 'chronological' and 'non-chronological' challenging.

Using examples that pupils are very familiar with, such as the events in a school day, will help to explain the concepts.

Information - pieces of knowledge that help us understand something
Non-chronological report - a non-fiction text that informs about a subject or event and that is written out of time order
Features - the parts or characteristics that make something unique