KS1 Writing Genres, Instructions, Recounts

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Introduction to Instructions PowerPoints

Introducing Pod and Dusty - KS1 - Y3

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Resource 144 £2.50

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Three PowerPoints

1. PowerPoint One - What are Instructions? 22 slides Dusty the robot learns how captions, rules, signs and recipes all give instructions (tell him what to do) he learns about bossy words (verbs) and has a brief introduction to recipes both ‘normal’ and fantasy.

2. PowerPoint Two - How To Look After A Goldfish 27 slides Tommy wants a pet but his mum tells him that he can’t have one until he knows how to look after it. With the help of a funny little note pad character he learns all about the instructions he needs to help him and how to write them so he won’t forget.

3. PowerPoint Three - How To Write Instructions 18 slides

Continues to recap and build on PowerPoint Two. Explains how to write instructions ‘How to make a jam sandwich’ - ‘How to clean your teeth’ - ‘How to make a newspaper hat’ - ‘How to make a LEGO house’. Recaps the elements of instructional writing including writing steps in correct order, using bossy verbs etc. There are sets of work sheets (cut & stick sequencing) to match the instructions slides on this PowerPoint. (see below)

4. Four PDF files with worksheets, cut & stick sequencing activities differentiated—see preview for list of what is in these six files.

All relate to PowerPoint Three.

Poem Lazy Leonard (Poster)

How To Make a Book (Poster)

How To Thread A Needle (Poster)

Character’s Checklist Posters To remind children of what should be included when writing instructions.

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Writing Instructions KS1

Instructions KS1

PowerPoints, Posters & Worksheets -- cut & stick, sequencing and checklists.

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Fun with Instructions PowerPoints

KS1 - Year 3

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Resource 145 £2.50

145

Two PowerPoints, Poems, Word Mats and Cards

1. PowerPoint one - Fun With instructions 27 slides in two sections. First section deals with/recaps the elements of instructional writing including writing steps in correct order, using bossy verbs etc. (Follows on from resource 144 but also stands alone) Second larger section starts with a contents (links) slide and has starter ideas for writing silly/fantasy recipes.

2. PowerPoint Two - *Following Directions 31 slides explains that directions are instructions to help us to find where we want to go. Explores vocabulary used when giving directions and how to write directions. Gives examples of phrases and ideas for imaginary places. (linked to the set of 36 cards see (7*) below)

3. Four Poems (to inspire fantasy recipes—A4 posters) and a Word Mat to help children with words and phrases when writing fantasy recipes or poems.

4. Poem Poster ‘Order for a Giant’s Breakfast’ & Recipe Wanted Poster

5. Poem poster ‘Song Of the Witches’ from Macbeth by William Shakespeare

6. Poem Poster ‘A Path To the Moon’ (directions) and 2 Word Mats to help children with words and phrases when writing directions.

Poem Poster ‘North, South, east West’ (directions) & simple labels

7. *Thirty Six small Cards ’How to find….” - ideas for starting writing directions to ….. Links to PowerPoint Two. (four picture cards per A4 sheet)

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Set of 36 small picture cards to print (PDF)

Instructions KS1--Y3

PowerPoints, Posters Poems Word Mats and Picture Cards

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Looking at Prepositions

matching picture and sentence cards - PDFs

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Resource 188 £1.50

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1. There are four different sets of cards. Six cards on each (A4) sheet and 6 sheets per set. Each set has different borders to the other sets.

2. There are four Preposition Poems to print (with and without pictures) and teacher notes & lists

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Non-Fiction Recounts PowerPoints

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Resource 192 £3.00

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There are six PowerPoints,

1. PowerPoint One — What is a recount? (overview) — 33 slides.

Pod and Eddy from Outer Space help Tod learn about recounts.

2. PowerPoint Two — Personal recounts — 21 slides with three different examples of a recount—Tom’s day out with his dad, Emma’s school trip and Joe’s letter to his grandma telling her about his birthday party.

3. PowerPoint Three — David and the Gate (personal recounts)

20 slides Two recounts. One from David and one from his grandad retelling what happened when David’s puppy escaped. Intended to reinforce the idea that recounts are like telling a friend.

4. PowerPoint Four — Professor Potter’s Factual Recount Factory

27 slides include different recounts of science experiments.

5. PowerPoint Five — Imaginative Recount — 20 slides

6. PowerPoint Six — Change it to a Recount — 17 slide ten poems that lend themselves to being turned into recounts eg diary entry, letter etc

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Non-Fiction Recounts KS1

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See also Verb Endings Lotto

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Recounts Diaries KS1

See also the Great Fire of London - Samuel Pepys Diary - Resource 84 Click Here

To write a personal diary entry using detail and description

To investigate time connectives.

To write in the first person using the past tense

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Writing Diaries - PowerPoints

Recounts KS1

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Resource 193 £1.25

193

There are three PowerPoints

1. PowerPoint One — Diaries (overview) — 30 slides include music clips - includes introduction to Beatrix Potter’s diary and extract from the diary of Thomas Farynor Baker to King Charles II, Pudding Lane, London.

2. PowerPoint Two — Confessions of a Runner -recount poem 7 slides

3. PowerPoint Three — A Diary has been Found. Who can it belong to? Riddles — 19 slides

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