Procedural writing & reading

The last few weeks in Room 4 we have been focusing our literacy programme on procedural writing. We have been reading procedural texts, writing our own procedural texts, following procedures and identifying structural and language features of procedural writing. We are beginning to know procedural writing inside and out. Check out some of the things we have been doing in the classroom around procedural texts. 

Check out some of our procedural writing on the student work page

Kereru students read instructions about how to build a raft. They built their own and wrote instructions for other people to follow to build their raft. 

                                 

                                     

       Callum and Mark's raft         Hikurangi and Bryn's raft              Charlotte and Hamish's raft

Pukeko student's read a journal story about rewena bread. They identified imperative verbs and technical vocabulary. They spent Friday making the bread and best of all, tasting the bread!

                              

                           

Ruru students read a text learning all about robots. The text was overflowing with technical vocabulary and they were able to ask thoughtful questions to decide if a word would be considered technical vocabulary or not. They then tried to programme some pesky robots. 

Lastly Tui students put their reading skills to the test by reading a set of instructions on how to create an origami water balloon. They carefully read the instructions and followed the directions precisely to create their own water balloon.