Our writing genre for the past term has been the Procedural Genre. The procedural genre is basically the 'how to' genre where we teach someone how to do something by writing clear instructions that are easy to follow. This is different from our work previosuly where we learned about the narrative writing genre which involved us using our imaginations to make up a fictional story.
First we read a procedural text on how to make tea and how to make a friendship pie during friendship week which was referenced in a previous post.
First we read a procedural text on how to make tea and how to make a friendship pie during friendship week which was referenced in a previous post.
By doing this we could see that each procedure needs a
- Title
- List of materials and ingredients
- Method. Steps that start with verbs (bossy or action words)
- Conclusion or optional sentence like 'serve with a chocolate biscuit'.
Toast Time!
We decided to write a procedure on 'How to make toast' but first we needed to actually make toast so that we could write some clear steps for our procedure writing. Take a look.
We revised orally the procedure many times and completed this iPad activity on how to make toast. This was important so as to make it easier for us to write our procedure.
Can you remember what to do?
Finally it was time to write our procedures. The children did amazingly as you can see below. All the work is independent, with a few prompts for spellings. The children could independently select the words the needed themselves for their writing from a shared word bank they created which was available for them in our classroom! Well done everyone!
Finally it was time to write our procedures. The children did amazingly as you can see below. All the work is independent, with a few prompts for spellings. The children could independently select the words the needed themselves for their writing from a shared word bank they created which was available for them in our classroom! Well done everyone!