finding grammatical and language features of non-chronological reports

Year 5 have started a new unit in English – non-chronological reports. Today, the children learnt about structural and language features of non-chronological reports. Some structural features include:

Title
Sub-headings
Image and caption
Introduction
Paragraphs

Language features within a non-chronological report are:

Fronted adverbials
Relative clauses
Parenthesis to add extra information
Formal language
Factual language
Third person

The children then analysed a non-chronological report, highlighting these areas. We are now experts!