Literacy

1. Literacy A Report

2. Introduction Time to turn on your thinking cap !!

3. WALT: What are we learning about today? Identify features of a report.

4. What does a report do? A report gives detailed information about something or someone.

5. Where could we find a report? We could read a Non Chronological Report on an IPAD. Non Fiction Book. Information Leaflet Magazine Article Report Encyclopaedia.

6. Introduction How is a report laid out?

7. For Example Let’s go back and think about our Pele Report. We are going to be looking at A Report on The Search for Tutankhamen.

8. For Example Let’s go back and think about our Pele Report. A Report on The Search for Tutankhamen. Title of the Report Author of the Book

9. Sub Heading Heading Sub Heading Paragraph Paragraph Photograph Map Sub-Heading Paragraph Caption Caption

10. Sub Heading Title of the Report Text Boxes Introduction to the Report Sub-Heading Sub-Heading Paragraph Heading Paragraph Photograph Paragraph Paragraph Sub-Heading Caption Drawing Diagram

11. Sub Heading Title of the Report Text Boxes Introduction to the Report Heading Sub-Heading Sub-Heading Paragraph Paragraph Sub-Heading Paragraph Paragraph Drawing Caption Photograph Pictures

12. Let’s look at the format of a report again

13. What does the Heading tell us in a report? Heading The Heading tells us what the report is about.

14. What does the introduction tell us in a report? The introduction tells us what we will read in the report. Report is about. Introduction

15. What does the paragraph tell us in a report? The paragraph is a group of sentences with capital letters and full stops. A paragraph discusses a particular idea. Paragraph

16. What does the Sub-Heading tell us in a report? The sub-heading is an additional heading that comes after the main heading in a report. It creates one of the parts in a report. Sub Heading

17. When you write a report think about this.

18. I love answering questions about this report in my literacy book.

19. Quiz

20. Introduction. Elephants are the largest land-dwelling mammals on earth and they can live up to 70 years. Elephants are brown to dark grey in colour and have long, coarse hairs sparsely covering their bodies. They have very thick skin that keeps them cool. Elephant trunks serve as another limb and they may contain more than 40,000 muscles that help the elephant use it to gather food and water. They also have large ears and thick tree-trunk-like legs to support their weight. There are two species of elephants: the African elephant and the Asian elephant. There are a number of differences between the two species: overall size, ear size, tusks and shape of the back and forehead among others. The basic diet of the elephant includes grasses, leaves, bamboo, bark and roots. Also they are known to eat crops like banana and sugarcane which are grown by farmers. Adult elephants eat 300-400 lbs of food per day. African savannah elephants are found in savannah zones in 37 countries south of the Sahara Desert. Type of Elephants. Diet of Elephants.

21. Group A What is the title of the Report?

22. Group B How many paragraphs does the report have?

23. Group C How many sub headings does the report have?

24. Group C How many sub headings does the report have?

25. Group D How many pounds (lbs) of food do adult elephants eat a day?