Year 3 - English
Planning the paragraph about diet in the Stone Age
The Stone Age: non-chronological report
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils research the diet, housing and artefacts of people in the Stone Age to write a non-chronological report. Pupils focus on using a range of fronted adverbials, subject-specific vocabulary and facts to write a clearly-structured full report. Pupils publish their reports at the end.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to plan the section about diet for a non-chronological report about the Stone Age.
Key Notes
- Notes should not be written in full sentences and bullet points can be used to order notes.
- Viewpoint fronted adverbials and formal fronted adverbials are used at the start of sentences for cohesion.
- The purpose of the diet paragraph is to show how the diet of the Mesolithic period differed to that of the Neolithic.
- Mesolithic people were nomadic hunter-gatherers (they hunted animals and foraged for berries for food.)
- Neolithic people began farming, growing crops and using domesticated animals.
Vocabulary To Learn
- 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
- hunter-gatherer: a person who hunted animals and foraged for berries and other natural products for food.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Planning needs to be detailed and include full sentences.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.
Notes should not be written in full sentences and bullet points can be used to order notes. Viewpoint fronted adverbials and formal fronted adverbials are used at the start of sentences for cohesion.
2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'subject-specific vocabulary'
vocabulary used when writing about a particular subject.
3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.
Mistake: Planning needs to be detailed and include full sentences. Correction: Planning should only have keywords and be written in note-from using bullet points.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Linguistic features of a non-chronological report about the Stone Age Study Guide
- Planning the paragraph about artefacts in the Stone Age Study Guide
- Planning the paragraph about houses in the Stone Age Study Guide
- Publishing a non-chronological report about the Stone Age Study Guide
- Writing the conclusion of a non-chronological report about the Stone Age Study Guide
- Writing the introduction of a non-chronological report about the Stone Age Study Guide
- Writing the paragraph about artefacts in the Stone Age Study Guide
- Writing the paragraph about diet in the Stone Age Study Guide
- Writing the paragraph about houses in the Stone Age Study Guide
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