Learning the features of a non-chronological report | English

Starter quiz

What always comes at the beginning of a sentence?
- a full stop
- a capital letter ✓
- a number
What comes at the end of a sentence?
- a full stop ✓
- a capital letter
- a number
Which word can be used to join two ideas in a sentence?
- and ✓
- first
- finally
What does a 'command' do?
- Tells the reader what their name is.
- Tells the reader what to do. ✓
- Tells the reader a story.
Which of these is a command?
- A bat has wings.
- I like playing football.
- Read on to find out more. ✓
If a story is made up using imagination, what type of text is it?
- fiction text ✓
- non-fiction text
- instructions text

Select the missing word. The simplest way to organise texts is into two categories called fiction and __________.
- books
- words
- non-fiction ✓
Which of these is a type of fiction text?
- newspapers
- stories ✓
- shopping list
Which of these is a type of non-fiction text?
- poems
- plays
- reports ✓
What does 'chronological' mean?
- the order that something happens ✓
- the route to get to a place
- the ideas that a writer has in their head
What does 'non-chronological' mean?
- the order that something happens
- out of time order ✓
- fiction
Put these parts of a football match into chronological order.
- 1
  
  ⇔
  
  warming-up
- 2
  
  ⇔
  
  kick-off for the start of the match
- 3
  
  ⇔
  
  half-time
- 4
  
  ⇔
  
  kick-off for the second half
- 5
  
  ⇔
  
  full-time

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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.

Pupils may find understanding the concept of non-chronological challenging.

Using examples they're very familiar with, such as the events in a school day, will help to explain the concept.

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