The Twits: Non-chronological Reports

This fun and informative non-chronological reports KS2 planning pack based on Roald Dahl's 'The Twits' will help you to guide your Year 4 class through the various stages of writing a non-chronological report.

During these four English lessons, your children will first explore the features of non-chronological reports, then generate their own facts about an animal (either real and imaginary!) from Roald Dahl's 'The Twits', before planning and writing their own report, with a focus on the use of fronted adverbials.

This non-chronological reports KS2 scheme of work includes everything you need for four fun-filled lessons: detailed plans, engaging slideshows, and differentiated activity ideas and worksheets.

Identifying Features

Download and use this features of non-chronological reports KS2 lesson plan to ensure your Year 4 class can identify and explain each feature of this particular genre of writing.

Challenge your class to read, identify and highlight the different features within a given report, or, in the alternative activity provided, children analyse three reports, identifying which features have been used and which are missing in the text.

Containing a detailed lesson plan, an informative slide presentation, and differentiated worksheets, this features of non-chronological reports KS2 planning pack has everything you need for a fantastic English lesson!

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Generating Facts

Download this Non-chronological Reports Year 4 English Lesson Plan, where children focus on generating facts for a report on an imaginary animal from Roald Dahl's 'The Twits'. In the alternative activity, they will gather facts about an African monkey by reading and selecting information from given sources.

Included within this The Twits lesson pack is a detailed plan, an engaging slideshow and differentiated worksheets - everything you need for a successful lesson!

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Planning a Report

In this non-chronological report planning lesson, your KS2 children first discuss the importance of making a plan before writing.

Then, they sort the fact slips from the previous lesson into groups according to given sub-headings, and use this information to plan their report about one of the imaginary animals from Roald Dahl's 'The Twits'. In the alternative activity, children use the information they gathered in the previous lesson to plan a non-chronological report on the African vervet monkey.

Included within this The Twits lesson pack for Year 4 is a detailed plan, a set of slides for the teaching input, and differentiated worksheets to support all abilities within your class.

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Writing a Report

In this final Non-chronological Report KS2 lesson, children explore how they can make their writing interesting and engaging for the reader by using carefully chosen descriptive vocabulary and varying their sentence structure.

Using this knowledge, they will then write their non-chronological report, inspired by the animals in Roald Dahl's 'The Twits', using their plans from the previous lesson.

Including a detailed lesson plan, an informative set of slides and differentiated worksheets, this Writing a Report lesson pack contains everything you need for a successful lesson!

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