Non Chronological Report

Key Features of Non Chronological Reports
Purpose: to describe the characteristics of something e.g. “Birds”, “Ancient Greece” Example: an extract from a general encyclopedia
Text Structure ·        Introductory information about what is to be described: who, what, when, where? (overall classification) ·        Non-chronological organisation ·        Description organised according to categories or information ·        Skeleton framework – a spidergram	Language features ·        Present tense (except historical reports) ·        Usually general nouns and pronouns (not particular people or things) ·        Third person writing ·        Factual writing, often involving technical words and phrases.
Common forms of non chronological reports ·        Information leaflet ·        School-project file ·        Encyclopedia entry ·        Magazine article ·        Non-fiction book ·        letter

Activity: Have a go at identifying ALL THE FEATURES of the text below.