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This document provides a scaffold for writing a procedure. It explains that a procedure tells how to make or do something. It provides sections for including the goal or aim, required materials and equipment, and steps in sequential order using action verbs and direct commands for clarity. Diagrams may also be included to aid understanding. The language features emphasize using the present tense and including how, when, where details.

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Procedure Text

This document provides a scaffold for writing a procedure. It explains that a procedure tells how to make or do something. It provides sections for including the goal or aim, required materials and equipment, and steps in sequential order using action verbs and direct commands for clarity. Diagrams may also be included to aid understanding. The language features emphasize using the present tense and including how, when, where details.

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PROCEDURE

SCAFFOLD

Purpose: To tell someone how to make or do something

Goal / Aim

A statement about what we are trying to make or do.

Materials / Equipment

You will need :

Include amounts of each material e.g. 4, half a cup, 2 metres.

Steps

Instructions are in the form of direct commands and must be


clear and easy to understand.
List the steps to be followed in the order in which they are to be
performed.
Usually the steps are numbered.
Put each step on a new line.

Language Features

Put the text in the present tense.


Use action verbs at the beginning of each instruction e.g. cut, mix.
Use words or phrases which tell us how, where, when with whom.
Diagrams and drawings may be used to aid understanding.
PROCEDURE
SCAFFOLD

Statement about
Goal what we are trying
to make or do.

Include amounts of
Materials / Equipment each material.
You will need:

Steps Steps in sequence


and may be
numbered.

Use action verbs


e.g. remove, repeat,
mix, attach, glue,
cut to start each
instruction.

Instructions are in
the form of direct
commands - clear
and easy.

Words that tell


how, when, where,
what.

Diagram and
headings may be
included.

Use simple, present


tense.
PROCEDURE
STUDENT WRITING
Purpose: Procedural text is used to tell someone how to make or do
something.

WRITING FEATURES

The text begins


GOAL

with a statement
about what is to
be achieved.

Information is
STEPS

given about
materials to be
used. The
required amounts
are also stated,
often as the first
step.

Action verbs are


used.

Instructions are
given in the form
of direct
commands and
must be clear and
easy to
understand.

Each step
explains what the
reader needs or
what he or she
should do next.

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