While working on our Information Report writing, we worked in groups to try to improve the overall result. We know a Report needs an introduction, paragraphs with facts and a conclusion. Our Topic is Zoo Animals so we know a lot of facts about them and chose to write our Reports on lions, giraffes and zebras. In our groups we had a Writer, a Captain (who chooses the order of who speaks) and a person to make sure we stayed on task. We started with simple sentences about the habitat and diet of our animals, then as a group, we thought about how we needed our sentences to have different Openers and we put them in. After that, we thought how we could join two simple sentences together with a Connective and we did that. Finally, we thought of all the impressive new vocabulary we’ve learned, made a big list and then looked for places to substitute simple words with our cool new ones. The result was what we hoped for. We now have some brilliant sentences that we will put together next week and write our Reports. We think we’ll put them up on the wall in our classroom because they are going to be so good.
After we’d finished, we chatted about our performance as a group member. Did we do a good job? We had a think about who we thought did an outstanding job and we told them why. We realised that it’s nice when an adult tells us we’ve done a good job, but it’s also brilliant when our pals tell us that too.
