Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explain how to structure and format a non-chronological report about a house for sale, a worksheet to collect vocabulary that can be used to describe a type of house, a vocabulary word bank to work with when composing sentences for a report and a template to write a report about a particular type of house for sale describing its special features.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to read and write non-chronological reports to describe some of the features of different types of houses for sale.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explore how to collect facts and information to work with when composing and presenting non-chronological reports about buildings that can be found in the local area. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.