Checklist for informational report

Structure
Does your information report have:
Headings
Subheadings (optional)
Opening statement or purpose
Topic sentences
Main body of information
Concluding information or summary
Picture of your animal with labelled parts and adaptions
Bibliography of resources you used for the report
Language Features
Does your information report have:
Scientific vocabulary
Compound and complex sentences containing one or more facts
Written in third person
Present tense
Descriptive, factual language
Action and relating verbs and verb groups
General and technical noun groups and pronouns
Adverbs and adverb phrases that express place, time, manner or
cause

Appendix R