End of term 3 - Instructional writing

For the last 2 weeks of term we have been working instructional writing. We have been focussing on adding advanced features to our instructions. These include:

• Use of adverbial clauses (if, so, that, otherwise) to indicate reason and time (when, after) e.g. Line the tin with paper so that it doesn’t stick
• Use of varying levels of modality to make meanings stronger weaker e.g. could, should, might, like. " Should the cake burn, put heavy icing on it."
• Use of beginning clauses to focus attention e.g. “After an hour check on the cake, it should be golden brown. "
• The use of conditional forms to indicate potential choices. E.g. "To make the cake tastier add 75g of raisins."
• Adding reasons for actions e.g. "Put the cake mixture in a square tin as it is easier to share a square cake."
• Consider different ways of giving commands, e.g. As an offer or an order
• Adjectives add details relating to size e.g. "A cake tin with a diameter of 15cm"
• Present tense
• Imperative (action) verbs e..g take, mix, bake, get, melt, sit, stir, kneed, glue
• Vocab ranges from precise technical to everyday language.

Have a look at some of the delicious things we created and wrote instructions for.