What makes good Instructions?

We have been looking at what makes good instructions to help us write our own. We worked in groups to look at different types of instructions and talk about what we thought was good.

We decided that good instructions have:

1. A clear title
2. A 'what you will need' part
3. Diagrams with labels
4. Bullet points and numbers
5. Simple, easy to read sentences
6. Lots of 'bossy' action verbs
7. Sentence openers like first, next, finally.