It was time to use Wild Earth African Safari to help with writing information texts. This was a game I used very successfully last year and it links nicely with the science unit Interdependence and Adaptation so ticks lots of boxes.
As before we walked through the game collecting as much information as possible. Once the children were excited and engaged we turned the game of and completed a shared writing lesson to create an effective opening paragraph. Next my attention turned to paragraphing and organisation of content. In the next few lessons we thought of different ways to open paragraphs and end them by using devices such as rhetorical questions and comments to the reader.
On the next outing of the game we thought about grouping the information we learnt in order to organise our paragraphs effectively.
From then on all game play was interspersed with writing lessons until we arrived at the ending of our texts.
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