Teacher-only planning companion for Report Writing. Use this page to keep reports focused on clear structure, factual organisation, and audience-aware information writing.
Students often know many facts but do not know how to organise them. Report writing accelerates once kaiako explicitly model heading choice, paragraph grouping, and factual language.
English writing practices include planning ideas at paragraph and whole-text level, supporting them with details, and shaping them for a specific purpose.
The report planner makes that whole-text work explicit by showing how notes become headings and how headings become paragraphs.
Useful in science, social studies, and inquiry-rich English writing.
Writers need to consider audience, purpose, and text conventions when selecting structure, language, and style.
Make the difference between report writing and opinion writing visible. Students need to know when explanation, neutral tone, and clear sectioning are the best fit.
Especially useful when students shift between persuasive and informative forms.
Information writing in Aotearoa is stronger when students work with real local contexts and treat cultural or environmental knowledge carefully.
A mātauranga Māori lens keeps report writing connected to place, relationship, and responsibility. Students should learn to explain accurately without reducing local knowledge to a flattened fact list.
Works well with taiao studies, local histories, and place-based inquiry.
Ministry of Education. (2007). The New Zealand Curriculum. Learning Media.
Ministry of Education. (2021). Te Mātaiaho: The Refreshed New Zealand Curriculum. Ministry of Education.
Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand. (2021). Tātaiako: Cultural Competencies for Teachers of Māori Learners. Teaching Council.