Purpose
Plan, create and revise an informative text with grouped ideas, source-linked details and a useful limit or next question.
Prepare
Source: R1, N1, L1, L2. Read the preparation notes. Plain paper and a familiar communication system are enough. Child choices · Optional home start · Optional extras.
Teach the 25-minute core
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Offer a small useful product: a display guide, a club-kit guide or a library question guide. The reader should be able to tell what is known and what needs checking.
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Read the selected practice sources again. Name whether they are invented or dated real-source paraphrases. Model a plan using headings only, leaving all own-response fields empty.
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Model joining related clauses with and or but, then grouping the detail paragraph separately from a limit/question paragraph. Keep tense sensible and vocabulary understandable for the selected reader. Demonstrate selected word work.
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Choose a project route. Write, type, dictate or construct a multimodal guide with captions/AAC. A short clear draft is enough; no word-count gate, poster purchase, public upload or compulsory performance.
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Use a private peer, adult or self-review: “Can you find the source detail? Can you find what still needs checking?” Keep suggestions optional; the author makes the revision decision. Individually observe the actual pupil contribution.
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Keep the first draft, feedback and chosen revision together. Optional delivery to a familiar audience can supply presentation evidence; planning or an adult reading the guide cannot substitute for the pupil’s actual delivery.
Taught-point word work
Use the pupil’s own draft to select one word-family revision: check/recheck/checking, make/making or member/membership. Model the taught pattern and ask the pupil to produce a suitable word separately if spelling evidence is needed. Dictation or copied editing is composition support, not independent spelling.
Three meaningful practice routes
A · Display-guide maker
Use R1. Help an imagined visitor recognise the drawing and understand a question it cannot answer.
B · Club-guide editor
Use N1. Help a fictional child choose what to ask about paper-town kits without promising light-up train kits.
C · Library-question guide
Use L1 and L2. Help a fictional family distinguish joining from borrowing and identify a condition to check.
Two additional teaching examples
C17 · Fictional museum guide
A heading “What the drawing shows” groups details. “What we need to ask” groups questions. The draft can be useful without invented history.
C18 · Fictional stage-prop guide
A labelled inventory can describe props and separately state what an organiser still needs to check. It cannot certify real equipment safe.
Component evidence and next teaching
Look for: Creates an organised informative text for a chosen reader, using relevant source detail, an appropriate limit and a purposeful revision.
Interpretation: Assess the child’s own idea grouping and wording, not resemblance to a model or page decoration. Accurate narrow information is useful even when the source leaves a question unanswered.
Next teaching: If the guide lacks a reader, choose a fictional reader and ask what they need first. If secure, check whether the image alternative and the text give equivalent task-relevant information.
National links: AC9E3LA04, AC9E3LA06, AC9E3LA09, AC9E3LA10, AC9E3LY01, AC9E3LY06, AC9E3LY07. These are partial opportunities; see the exact map and limits.
Record the actual response and help given; leave unobserved reading, spelling, handwriting and delivery unscored. Separate checks and criteria.
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