Different Kinds of Lists

Introducing another kind of non-fiction text: lists!

We use lists all the time anyway: shopping lists (which they see every time we go to Asda, sometimes reading them out to me as we go round), To Do lists (often I write these on the whiteboard e.g. as a plan for the day or the week), etc. etc. They even include them in their play, sometimes taking out a notepad and pencil/pen and copying words from their posters into a list...

So it wasn't much to just clarify and teach them the basic features:

- lists go down the page
- start a new line for a new thing
- they can have bullet points
- or they can be numbered
- they need to have 3 or more things

That's it!

Then I gave them each a piece of paper with two titles on it: "A List of Animals I Like" and "A List of Things I Like To Do". They needed to complete the first list using bullet points and the second list using numbered brackets. I showed an example of each on the whiteboard then left them to it until they got bored. 😂 One wrote the lists pictured above; the other did about 7 animals and 3 things to do lol.

I decided to save writing a list using commas for another day, as that's slightly different in terms of format and learning about punctuation. 😊