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=LESSON 6 Final Product: Information report =

**Date**: 4.10.11 **Time**: 11am **Duration**: 1 hour **Stage**: 2

**Lesson context and Focus:** Compose a final copy of their information report within the group’s allocated based on research and structured planning done from previous lessons. The information report will be presented on A3 cardboard so that students can present their Information reports to their peers. Students in previous lessons have already started planning and scribing their draft information report.

=Outcomes and indicators: = __ENGLISH __ **Learning to talk and Listen ** TS2.2 Interacts effectively in groups and Pairs, adopting a range of roles, uses a variety of media and uses various listening strategies for different situations.
 * //Works efficiently in a group to put together information to create an information report. Presents their work effectively to the whole class explaining the processes and content of their information report. //

**Learning to Write — Producing Texts ** WS2.9 Drafts , revises, proofreads and publishes well-structured texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and written language features.
 * //writes for a chosen audience //
 * //contributes to joint text-construction activities //

WS2.10 Produces texts clearly, effectively and accurately, using the sentence structure, grammatical features and punctuation conventions of the text type. __SCIENCE __ **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Living Things **
 * //<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The final copy of the information report to be presented should involve sentence structure, grammatical features and punctuation that of a information report. //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Living things depend on other living things to survive.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Plants and animals live in environments that supply their needs.

**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Resources/set up: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Interactive Smart Board
 * <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Two examples of information reports (Appendix 1)
 * <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Information Report Proforma (Appendix 2)
 * <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Information classroom poster (Appendix 3) (Eather, 2004-2010)
 * <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Paper, Pencil
 * <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">4 A3 Cardboards
 * <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Texters
 * <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">glue
 * <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">scissors
 * <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">printer
 * <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">A3 book stand
 * <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">A3 book stand

//<span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Appendix 1 // <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">

//<span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Appendix 2 // <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">

//<span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Appendix 3 // <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Timing (mins) **

|| **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Student activity ** = = || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Teaching points ** <span style="color: #b03b3b; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">(Open questions, cues) || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">RESOURCES ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Management strategies ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">2
 * =<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Intro =

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">7 || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Explain the purpose of the lesson. __<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Purpose of lesson __ <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Students will produce a final copy of their information report after proof reading and correcting any punctuation or grammatical errors from their draft.

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Teacher should have opened on the interactive smart board two different information reports that have been split by title, paragraphs and conclusion. Have all the different components of the two different information reports jumbled up (Appendix 1). As a class students are to put back together the two information reports in the right structure. (e.g. title, definition or classification of the subject, important facts about the subject and lastly a conclusion) (Eather, 2004-2010).

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Discuss with students aspects that need to be included within the body of an information report. These are: <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Appearance, habitat, movement, Food, Behaviour, Life cycle (Eather, 2004-2010).

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Ask students to refer back to the classroom Information report poster if they are unsure (Appendix 3) || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Who can guess what we are going to do in this lesson?

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">What have we done so far in our process of making information reports?

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Now what did we learn about the structure of an information report?

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">How do you think we can distinguish which paragraph belongs to which information report?

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">How should we order these paragraphs? || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Interactive <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Smart Board

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Jumbled <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Examples <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">of different <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">information <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Reports <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">(Appendix 1)

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Information Report structure poster (Appendix 3) || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Active involvement.

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Students who are not participating will be encouraged to have a go at moving the paragraphs on the smart board themselves. ||
 * =<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">BODY (1) =

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">31 || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Students are to get back into their allocated groups and discuss how they will continue organizing their information into paragraphs and in the structure of an information report on the proforma provded to them (Appendix 2)

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Students should have allocated roles within their groups. For example one student may scribe, others may discuss how to categorise the information into paragraphs and others may look at grammar and punctuation of the paragraphs. Another role can be for students to start choosing images they collected over research to print and include in their reports. || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Remind students that their own opinion should not be incorporated into the information report as the report should include facts and descriptions of their chosen animal.

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Walk around and observe group collaborations and listen to see if they are on the right track.

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Stimulus Questions
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">- Do you have a title? <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">- What did we say we should involve in our body of the information report? <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">(Appearance, habitat, movement, Food, Behaviour, Life cycle etc). <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">-Have you got all those aspects within your report?

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">If students are unsure, they may also look back on the information reports they read in the introduction of the lesson to look at the writing styles (to be left up on the interactive board). || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Paper

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Pencil

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Computer

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Interactive

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">smart board

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Information <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">report proforma <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Appendix (2) || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Students who are going off topic will be watched and redirected to a role within their group work. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">When students are being too loud, teacher will ring a bell or clap to indicate to students of the noise level. || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">10 || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Students should now be ready to type up their draft information reports on the computer and print it out in font size 20 so that they can cut out the parts of the information report spread out on their A3 cardboard. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Students will print out images to incorporate into their Final information report.
 * =<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Body (2) =

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">While some group members are typing, other members should decorate the A3 cardboard to look appealing. || **__<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Stimulus questions __** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Where are you going to place the images on the information report? <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">You should cut out the paragraphs and stick them spread out but still in the same structure because if you just paste in the A4 paper it will be for the class to see because everything will be so close together. || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Computer

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Printer

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Glue

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Scissors

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">A3 cardboard ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">15 || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">All groups will sit on the floor with their finalized A3 Information report.
 * =<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Conclusion =

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Each group will come up and share their reports with the class answering questions teachers ask them. || **__<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Stimulus Questions __** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">What was your information report about? <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">What was the hardest part of creating this information report from the past lessons? Research? Planning? Composing? <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">What was the most interesting fact that you discovered about this animal while making this information report? || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Book stand || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> Students who have are not paying attention to their peers presentations will be asked questions relating to the presentation. ||

**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Evidence of Learning: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Contributions to whole class discussions in introduction
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Observable (and aural) use of effective teamwork; including talk and listening, decision making, quality and execution of ideas
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Is the final information report structure correct in terms of grammar, punctuation and style of an information report?

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">TEACHER EVALUATION
**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Lesson Strengths: **

**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">What worked, and why? **

**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Lesson Weaknesses: **

**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">What didn’t work, and why? **

**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Possible Improvements: **

__Reference List__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Eather, J. (2004-2010). //Text organiser: Information Report//. Retrieved Septmeber 30, 2011 from <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">http://www.writingfun.com/writingfun2010.html