English Big Game AdventureMonday 11th May 2020

How to write a report

Weekly Overview- What we are doing this week

Monday- Information report writingTuesday- Information report writingWednesday- Handwriting and comprehensionThursday- Research Friday- Spelling and writing an information report

Monday

Last week we learnt all about the features of information reports. This week we are going to learn about how to research and write and information report.

Write today’s date and LO in your book.Monday 11th May 2020LO: Take notes in dot points

Key VocabularyPronouns, headings, notes, research,

Warm up

Today we are going to use pronouns and other nouns to avoid repetition. Repetition is when something that is said or written is used

over and over again, for example:

Gary ate supper when Gary got home. Gary enjoyed the food.

Gary ate his supper when he got home. He enjoyed the food.

After its first use, instead of repeating 'Gary', we could replace further uses with pronouns to avoid repetition, such as:

noun pronoun pronoun alternate noun

Pronouns

How many different pronouns can you think of?Write as many as you can think of.

Pronouns- How many of these did you think of?

Pronounsyourself his

itthemselves our

theyI who

mineyou which

yourshe that

theirsshe myself

Pronoun or not

Keeping in mind that ‘a pronoun is a word which takes the place of a noun’, sort the following words into the correct circles.

Pronouns Not Pronouns

orange yours himself Larry itthat them home piano him

Pronoun or not

Pronouns Not Pronouns

orangeyours

himself Larryit

that

them

home

piano

him

Information ReportsLast week we learnt about the features of information reports.

Can you find these features?• Title• Headings• Information• Facts• Images/Diagrams

Information Reports

Can you find these features?• Title• Headings• Information• Facts• Images/Diagrams

How to write an information reportWe can’t just write a report without information and facts. We need to research these and read all about our topic or subject.

Tigers

In Big Game Adventure, there was this small information report. It’s not very detailed. We’re going to use it to help us research and make a more detailed and informative report.

Tigers

Can you think of some headings we could use in our report?An example might be ‘All about tigers’.

List as many headings as you can think of we could write about tigers.

Tigers

Some ideas:• All About Tigers• Tiger Food (What tigers eat and hunt)• Tiger Habitat (Where the tiger is from and lives)• Big Tigers (The size of the tiger and it’s features)

You might have some others. We are going to use these to help us write our report

Tigers

These websites have some great information about tigershttps://kids.sandiegozoo.org/animals/tigerhttps://parenting.firstcry.com/articles/interesting-tiger-facts-information-for-kids/https://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/animals/tiger.html

I am going to use the information on these websites to help me write an information report.

Tiger research- Here I will take notes on what I have read

All about Tigers• __________________• __________________• __________________• __________________• __________________

Tiger food• _______________• _______________• _______________• _______________• _______________

Tiger Habitat• __________________• __________________• __________________• __________________• __________________

Big Tigers• ________________• ________________• ________________• ________________• ________________

Other facts• __________________• __________________• __________________• __________________• __________________

Tiger research- Here I will take notes on what I have read

All about Tigers• _______________• _______________• _______________• _______________• _______________

Tiger food• _______________• _______________• _______________• _______________• _______________

Tiger Habitat:• Tropical rainforests• Snow-covered and

deciduous (leaves falling) forests

• Mangrove and swamp• Drier forest areas• Live near water to

swim and cool down

Big Tigers• ________________• ________________• ________________• ________________• ________________

Other facts• __________________• __________________• __________________• __________________• __________________

Tiger research- This is what my research looks like

All about Tigers• Bengal, Siberian, Indochinese,

Malayan, South China, Sumatran• Mother tigers build den to give birth• Cubs born blind , open eyes six to

twelve days after born

Tiger food• _______________• _______________• _______________• _______________• _______________

Big Tigers• Can weigh 300 kilograms• Biggest cat species in

world• Coat reddish orange

shade with black stripes• Have 30 sharp teeth• Muscular legs• Very sharp claws

Other facts• Tigers can swim for 6km• No tiger has the same stripe pattern• Reach speeds of 65km per hour.

Tiger Habitat:• Tropical rainforests• Snow-covered and

deciduous (leaves falling) forests

• Mangrove and swamp• Drier forest areas• Live near water to

swim and cool down

As you can see, I’ve missed some research. Your task is to use the websites a few slides back to take some notes about what tigers eat and how they hunt.

Tiger food• can be vegetarian• Hunt alone• Rely on smell• Patient hunters,

sometimes take hours• Can eat, pigs, deer,

rhinoceros,• In India-buffalo and

wild boar• Siberian eat moose and

deer

Tiger research-possible answers

Well done Year four

Now that we have our notes on tigers, we can write an information report. Tomorrow we will turn those notes into full sentences and prepare our information report!