Ks2 Non fiction worksheets
Free worksheets: Non fiction, KS2
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Writing instructions template
Think about wrapping a present. Can you write detailed instructions for someone who has never done it before? Think about what you will need and what your wrapped present should look like.
Analysing newspaper articles
Can you find the following features in this newspaper article? Headline, caption, paragraphs, picture.
Writing informative text
Have your child pretend they're helping out a new boy or girl who's just arrived at their school by explaining all of the important things they'd need to know, from homework to PE.
Write a letter about your holiday
This exercise is a great way to help your child practise descriptive writing. Talk about recent holidays your family has gone on, and what your child remembers from them. Can they write a letter to a friend, telling them about the holiday?
Writing a biography
Use this biography writing frame to write a biography. Think about where your pictures and captions are going to go and where you will position each paragraph. Don't forget all the important features of a biography!
Year 6 proofreading: editing and improving
This information text needs punctuating and dividing into paragraphs. Try to include punctuation marks like semi colons, brackets and dashes, too.
Year 5 proofreading: formal and informal language
Billy has written a letter to try to persuade his local council that a new park is needed in the area. The language is very informal. Do you think his letter will be taken seriously? Your task is to keep the ideas in the letter the same but rewrite it using the more appropriate formal language that is needed when writing a persuasive letter to someone you don’t know.
Year 4 proofreading: organising information into paragraphs
Paragraphs are used to split writing into sections; each paragraph is about a different topic. Can you cut out these sentences and organise them into paragraph groups?
Book reviews activity pack
Help your child explore books and language with TheSchoolRun's Book reviews activity pack, a huge collection of reading comprehension and creative writing resources for Year 1 to Year 6.
Writing an informal letter
Have a look at this text message from Jamie to his mum. Does the language sound appropriate? Then see if you can re-write this message as an informal letter. Think about including slang (but no text-speak!), different punctuation and first names.
Formal letter-writing
In the letter below a child is writing to his head teacher to demand justice. Do you think his head teacher will be impressed? Would the writer be more likely to be listened to if he wrote in a more formal style?
Using formal and informal language
A formal letter and an informal letter has been cut up into pieces. Can you cut out the pieces and piece them back into two letters?
Formal and informal language
In everyday life we often to choose to write in formal or informal language, depending on what we’re writing and who we’re writing to. Look at the two letters below. Discuss which bits of each letter are formal and informal with an adult. Can you underline and label certain features?
Super slogans!
It’s not just poetry that uses figurative, poetic language. Advertising slogans use a range of language techniques to persuade us to buy a product or favour a particular brand. See if you can identify the techniques used in these fake slogans.
Inference skills
Skilled writers often use a technique we might call ‘show not tell’. They use the actions of characters, or the situation they find themselves in, to tell us more about them, rather than spelling their meaning out and explaining it to us directly. Can you use your inference skills on this passage?
Plan and write your own argument text
Think about an interesting subject that you feel strongly about. You are going to write one argument text FOR the subject and one argument text AGAINST the subject. Start by doing some research
Features of an argument text
Argument texts are non-fiction texts that show someone’s point of view about a particular subject. Go through both 'An argument for zoos' and 'An argument against zoos' and see if you can answer these questions.
Writing an appeal
A poster is designed to find a volunteer to search for the goblin and his magical potion (from the story 'The goblin's curse'). What do you think it said? Include: an eye-catching title; a colourful picture; information about the problem and how it needs to be solved; adjectives to describe the type of person who needs to come forward; a reward.
Writing a biography
Use this biography writing frame to write a biography. Think about where your pictures and captions are going to go and where you will position each paragraph. Don't forget all the important features of a biography!
Planning a biography
Think of a person you want to research. Use the Internet and / or library to find out about this person. Use the spider diagram below to make notes about their birth, young adulthood, later adulthood and death.
Reading and labelling instruction text
This is an instruction text. It comes from a manual that came with a digital camera. See if you can find any manuals around the house or on the internet. Can you find the following features? Tick them off as you see them.
Persuasive texts: advertising
A Year 5 (KS2) persuasive text example and activity, created by an experienced teacher and based on the use of persuasive texts in advertising.
Planning, writing and designing your own advert
Imagine that you are creating a product that you think people will want to use. This can be a completely made-up, make-believe product – it could even be magic! Use your imagination as much as possible. Draw a picture of your product below. Label it to show what the different features are and how it will be used.
Giving oral instructions and writing a manual
Find an appliance in the home that you don’t know how to use, for example a hairdryer, printer or microwave. Have a go using the appliance yourself. Now, the adult who is helping you is going to follow YOUR commands in using the appliance. They must do exactly as you say! This means that your instructions must be very clear.
Answering open and closed questions
A closed question is one which only requires a simple answer (usually one word), for example: What is your name? An open question allows the person being asked to talk more freely in a variety of different ways, for example: How are you feeling? Here are some questions for Perseus. Cut them out and sort them into a pile of closed questions and a pile of open questions.