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Planning the paragraph about houses in the Stone Age
I can plan the houses paragraph for a non-chronological report about the Stone Age.
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Year 3
Planning the paragraph about houses in the Stone Age
I can plan the houses paragraph for a non-chronological report about the Stone Age.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Notes should be written in note form 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 houses paragraph is to show how housing of the Mesolithic period differed to that of the Neolithic.
- Mesolithic people were nomadic: they carried their homes with them as they moved.
- Neolithic people began settling in small communties in houses built of stone.
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
Subheading - a word, phrase or sentence used to introduce part of a text
Nomadic - travels from one place to another rather than settling
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.
Supplement pupil knowledge of the houses in the Mesolithic and Neolithic period with additional videos, images and research. Pupils can make posters of their research from which they can plan notes.
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Starter quiz
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6 Questions
Q1.
Which of these nouns needs a capital letter?
caves
hunters
Q2.
Which sentence is correctly punctuated?
Their tents were made out of animal skin and wooden sticks
their tents were made out of animal skin and wooden sticks
their tents were made out of animal skin and wooden sticks.
Q3.
In which sentence is the comma used correctly?
The Mesolithic people settled in, small, tight-knit communities.
The Mesolithic people settled in small tight-knit communities.
The Mesolithic people settled in small tight-knit, communities.
Q4.
Which of these fronted adverbials shows that another idea is being added to the previous sentence?
However,
In contrast,
Interestingly,
Q5.
Which of these is a viewpoint fronted adverbial?
because
and
eventually
Q6.
What is a fronted adverbial always followed by?
a full stop
an adjective
a capital letter
a co-ordinating conjunction
Exit quiz
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6 Questions
Q1.
Which of these are subject-specific vocabulary?
houses
humans
Q2.
What is in a plan?
paragraphs
full sentences with capital letters and full stops
Q3.
Which of the following is true of the Mesolithic period?
They built houses out of stone.
They made permanent settlements.
They always lived in the woods.
Q4.
Match these Stone Age notes to the sections they would be used in.
Diet
Housing
Artefacts
Q5.
How do notes help the writer?
to punctuate sentences accurately
to make subordinate clauses make sense
Q6.
Complete the following sentence. Skara Brae shows that Neolithic people...
moved around depending on the season.
built houses out of wood.