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Planning the paragraph about diet in the Stone Age

I can plan the section about diet for a non-chronological report about the Stone Age.

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Planning the paragraph about diet in the Stone Age

I can plan the section about diet for a non-chronological report about the Stone Age.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Notes should not be written in full sentences and bullet points can be used to order notes.
  2. Viewpoint fronted adverbials and formal fronted adverbials are used at the start of sentences for cohesion.
  3. The purpose of the diet paragraph is to show how the diet of the Mesolithic period differed to that of the Neolithic.
  4. Mesolithic people were nomadic hunter-gatherers (they hunted animals and foraged for berries for food.)
  5. Neolithic people began farming, growing crops and using domesticated animals.

Common misconception

Planning needs to be detailed and include full sentences.

Planning should only have keywords and be written in note-from using bullet points.

Keywords

  • 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.

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6 Questions

Q1.
Which of these need a capital letter?
Correct answer: mesolithic
farmers
Correct answer: neolithic
hunter-gatherers
Q2.
Which sentence is correctly punctuated?
Correct answer: They domesticated animals to produce food.
they domesticated animals to produce food.
They domesticated animals to produce food
they domesticated animals to produce food
Q3.
In which sentence is the comma used correctly?
In addition they cultivated crops such as wheat.
In, addition they cultivated crops such as wheat.
Correct answer: In addition, they cultivated crops such as wheat.
In addition, they cultivated crops such, as wheat.
Q4.
'They gathered berries and nuts.' I which section of a non-chronological report about the Stone Age would you find this sentence?
Introduction
Correct answer: Diet
Housing
Artefacts
Conclusion
Q5.
What is the purpose of a subheading?
to make a text longer
to summarise the text
Correct answer: to signal the reader to each section of the text
Q6.
'Amazingly,' and 'Interestingly,' are types of fronted adverbials.
Correct Answer: viewpoint, Viewpoint

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6 Questions

Q1.
Which of these are subject-specific vocabulary?
Correct answer: Neolithic
Correct answer: hunting
nature
walking
Correct answer: domesticated
Q2.
What is in a plan?
full sentences with capital letters and full stops
Correct answer: bullet points for notes
Correct answer: subject-specific vocabulary
unnecessary information
Q3.
Which of the following is true of the Mesolithic period?
Correct answer: They hunted wild animals and gathered nuts and berries from nature.
They grew crops and prepared the land for farming.
They domesticated animals such as sheep.
They sold food.
Q4.
Which of the following are true of the Neolithic period?
They moved around depending on where they could find animals to hunt.
Correct answer: They domesticated animals such as sheep, cows and chickens.
They sold food to make money.
Correct answer: They cultivated crops and prepared the land for farming.
Q5.
Match the type of fronted adverbial to its example.
Correct Answer:formal 'and' fronted adverbial,In addition,

In addition,

Correct Answer:formal 'but' fronted adverbial,However,

However,

Correct Answer:viewpoint fronted adverbial,Interestingly,

Interestingly,

Q6.
Complete the following sentence. 'Farming had a positive impact on their diet because...'
Correct answer: they could grow crops such as wheat and barley to eat.
they could sell the food.
Correct answer: they could domesticate animals to produce food.
they could hunt more easily.