Planning the paragraph about artefacts in the Stone Age | English

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What is a non-fiction text?
- a text that provides information about real-life topics ✓
- a text about someone's life
- a story that is made up
- a playscript
Match the word with the correct definition.
- biography
  
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  a story of someone's life ✓
- non-chronological report
  
  ⇔
  
  an information text that is written out of time order ✓
- fictional story
  
  ⇔
  
  a made-up story about characters who aren't real ✓
Which are true to complete the following sentence? A fronted adverbial...
- starts a sentence. ✓
- makes sense by itself.
- is followed by a comma. ✓
Which is not an example of formal language?
- However,
- Also,
- Awesome! ✓
What must a clause contain?
- 'a verb' ✓
Which sentence is punctuated accurately?
- Archaeologists discovered objects such as dice spears and pots.
- archaeologists discovered objects such as dice, spears and pots.
- Archaeologists discovered objects such as dice, spears and pots. ✓
- archaeologists discovered objects such as dice, spears and pots

What is an artefact?
- an object made by humans that provides evidence of past human activity ✓
- an object made of stone
- a work of art
Someone who excavates old sites to look for artefacts is called what?
- a builder
- an archaeologist ✓
- a sculptor
- a scientist
What is in a plan?
- bullet points with notes ✓
- subject-specific vocabulary ✓
- full sentences with capital letters and full stops
Match the type of fronted adverbial to its example.
- formal 'and' fronted adverbial
  
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  In addition, ✓
- viewpoint fronted adverbial
  
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  Interestingly, ✓
- formal 'but' fronted adverbial
  
  ⇔
  
  However, ✓
Match the artefact to the material it was made from.
- spear
  
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  wood and flint ✓
- dice
  
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  animal bones ✓
- pot
  
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  clay ✓
Spears were used predominantly for which activities?
- fishing ✓
- fighting
- hunting ✓
- attacking

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Notes should not be written in full sentences and bullet points can be used to organise notes.
Viewpoint fronted adverbials and formal fronted adverbials are used at the start of sentences for cohesion.
The purpose of the artefacts paragraph is to show what tools were made of and how they were used in the Stone Age.
Flint was the stone used to make weapons and tools.
Pots were made of clay and dice, jewellery and combs were made from animal bones.

Planning needs to be detailed and include full sentences.

Planning should only have keywords and be written in note-from using bullet points.

Subject-specific vocabulary - vocabulary used when writing about a particular subject
Plan - a framework that writers create before they write a section or whole text
Notes - written out of full sentences
Subheading - a word, phrase or sentence used to introduce part of a text