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Crime Scene Report Writing Practice

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Write A Crime Report cover from an Information Writing Theme Work Pack for 9-12 years, with a guinea pig drawing
Front page to hand out with the printed pack
Information writing intro: facts and opinions, and text forms like diaries, reports, reviews and newspaper articles
Discussion starter: where do we meet information texts?
Writing to inform: audience and purpose questions, plus tips on formal tone, present tense, third person and headings
Mini-lesson notes before planning any informative text
Paragraph guidance: open with a topic sentence, use linking words, and P.E.E. for Point, Evidence and Explanation
Reference sheet for structuring paragraphs
Informal vs formal style: a first person example beside an impersonal third person one, plus fact sheet tips
Compare registers before students choose a voice
Organising information: use paragraphs, headings and linking words like firstly and finally; what subheadings do
Checklist students can keep beside them while drafting
Newspaper report 'Gang Terror Hits Street' from The Daily News, about vandalism on Snobland Avenue with resident quotes
Shared reading model to analyse reporting features
Witness statements: students read three Snobland Avenue examples, then write one more incident and underline key facts
Guided writing: modelling the statement format
Blank writing page with no printed prompt, for students to draft their own witness statement or crime report text
Extra space for the extended written response
Police report planning: students imagine and draw a setting, a good character, baddies and a witness to the crime
Planning stage before the independent police report
Attributes
Subject

ELA, Writing

Grades

Grade 4, 5, 6

File

PDF

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About This Product

Information Writing work packs are essential for all students wanting to develop their literacy skills and improve their grades in English assignments and examinations.


Information Writing work packs concentrate specifically on information writing, providing everything needed to stimulate a child to write. The child is taught to recognise the difference between facts and opinions. Each pack in this series concentrates on a different aspect of information writing including: writing to advise, writing to inform, writing to explain, writing to analyse, review and comment, giving examples. The child is taught how a newspaper article is structured, how to write formal and informal letters, diaries, police reports, e-mails, biographies, autobiographies, interviews, book reviews and many more.


The work packs contain starting point for writing, helping the child to form ideas, enabling him or her to structure their work and organise it into paragraphs. Attention is given to making writing more interesting by varying sentence types, using punctuation and good grammar.


Each work pack includes an exciting range of model answers and sample texts written by students and provides practice questions to test them. Common errors made by students are highlighted and corrected. They are packed with vital hints and tips to enable the student to be successful and gain good grades.


The packs are a very useful resource for teachers and save hours of time when preparing lessons or homework tasks. The specimen lesson plans and examples contained within each work pack will give the student ideas to build on and provide practice to develop their writing skills. Each work pack provides children with ideas for writing, especially reluctant writers who require starting points to write. Each work pack provides a safe topic that children will be comfortable with.

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13 pages

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