List the habits of a species of whale of the students' choice. They scribe and illustrate them. Students pose questions and answers. Teacher collates these for a new quiz on the computer. A Whale of a Quiz .
Reports Use an overhead projector to display a short report, eg.
Teacher asks questions of each paragraph. Students identify the language and structural features of a report . Random Fact Sheet During modeled writing as a class, in pairs or in groups, produce a random list of facts about a topic, eg. Baleen whales, Toothed whales. Planning Teacher models filling in a Planning Sheet .