This term, the Year 2’s have started to look at procedural texts. So far, we’ve started with investigating cookbooks and recipes, and came up with some statements as a class to describe the organization, structure and features of these texts.
This week, we looked at another type of procedural text – instructions on how to make an origami duck. As a class, we came up with some statements that we can apply to procedural texts, such as ‘Procedural texts teach us how to make or do something’, that ‘they include technical language’, and ‘pictures and diagrams can be included – of the finished product and of the process’.
A wondering that we came up with during our reflection was ‘what other procedural texts do we use regularly?’. Some ideas that we brainstormed were Lego instructions, board games, and maths games. Next week we will start building a collection of different examples of procedural texts on a wall in the neighbourhood – if you can find any examples at home, please bring them in to share!