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A model non-chronological report text about the extinct cave bear with feature find worksheet and answers, and differentiated planning and writing templates.

The example information text is about a now-extinct animal that lived across Europe, including in the British Isles, and in some parts of Asia.

The exemplar text can be used as a WAGOLL non-chronological report to examine before pupils plan and write their own about this animal or another extinct creature, such as the dodo or the woolly mammoth, or an endangered animal, such as the mountain gorilla or red squirrel.

Resources provided:
• Exemplar non-chronological report text
• Feature find worksheet with answers
• Differentiated planning templates, x3
• Differentiated writing templates, x2

Features of the text include:
• Expanded noun phrases
• Fronted adverbials
• Hyphenated adjectives
• Brackets
• Prepositional phrases
• Commas
• Apostrophes
• Prepositional phrases
• Question marks
• Relative clauses
• Subordinate clauses

This scientific text has cross-curricular links to the science curriculum:

✎ Year 3: Animals Including Humans - identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat
✎ Year 4: Living Things and Their Habitats - recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways
✎ Year 4: Animals Including Humans - construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey
✎ Year 5: Living Things and Their Habitats - describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals
✎ Year 6: Living Things and Their Habitats - give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics
✎ Year 6: Evolution and Inheritance - identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution

All resources are provided in editable Word and PDF format.

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