Report Writing Stages
These ideas developed by Mr Bill Clarkson New Plymouth
- Focus on the children's questions.
- Teach process and study skills where necessary, e.g.
- observations
- inference
- library research
- using references
- using diagrams, charts, tables of data
- listening for important ideas
- getting information from a page
- note taking etc (investigation skills) (finding answers)
- Children record notes about what they have observed, read, heard, thought and found out about their study questions etc.
- Teach report writing skills e.g. focusing, summarising, reasoning, pruning, suspending judgement, offering tentative conclusions, concept of alternative answers etc.
Encourage use of phrases like: I think, perhaps, could be, might be, maybe, scientists say.
- Provide organisational framework for a draft copy. For example, headings such as introduction, study questions, extra findings, conclusion etc.
- Children use their notes and thoughts to write a draft copy which, after revision, proof reading and teacher conference stages, is made ready for final draft.
- Teach presentation skills and report format.
- Children complete the presentation copy.
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