Earlier you read some of Year 3’s wonderful ‘Rock Poems’. However, we have not only been rock poets, we have been doing all sorts of other amazing things in relation to our topic on rocks.
Check out our photos to see our rock research, which led to our rock presentations and our rock collages, which led to our rock paintings. We also did some rock experiments, which led us to discover which rocks were the most porous and which rocks were stronger than others.
Plus watch and listen carefully to our ‘Rocks Rock’ information talking text that we created together as a class. Creating and learning this helped us to use good choices of vocabulary when writing our own information texts. Rocktastic! Well done Year 3!
An information text is a piece of non-fiction writing which gives information about a particular thing (for example: rocks). Information texts are sometimes called non-chronological reports, because they are giving information about something without mentioning the order in which it happened.
To help us remember the structure of an information text, we learnt a Talking Text! We all helped to create our own actions and learned to speak our text aloud, before writing anything down! This helped us a lot, as we were able to make sure we included structural features such headings and underlining, sentence signposts/connectives, generalisations, detail to illustrate a point, technical language and punctuation (full stops and commas). All of that without even writing a single word!
