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Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience
Elaborations
- using research from print and digital resources to gather and organise information for writing (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- selecting an appropriate text structure for the writing purpose and sequencing content according to that text structure, introducing the topic, and grouping related information in well-sequenced paragraphs with a concluding statement (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- using vocabulary, including technical vocabulary, appropriate to purpose and context (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- using paragraphs to present and sequence a text (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- using appropriate grammatical features, including more complex sentences and relevant verb tense, pronoun reference, adverb and noun groups/phrases for effective descriptions (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
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Year 5 Magazine - "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 2) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with Issue 2 of Teach Starter's Year 5 magazine.
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The Writing Process Poster - Landscape
A simple poster outlining the writing process.
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Historical Recount (Factual) Checklist - Structure, Language and Features
A checklist for students to use when proofreading and editing their historical recounts.
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Authors Who Inspire – Speechwriting Task
Research and celebrate an inspiring author with this speechwriting activity.
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Writing Ninjas Bump it Up Data Wall Display
A ninja themed Bump It Up Wall for writing to display in your classroom.
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Five Wonders Theme Park: Slither House Sketch – Project
An inquiry project that encourages students to research animals and their habitats and design a reptile house in a theme park.
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Five Wonders Theme Park: Replace and Upgrade – Project
A project where students get to decide on a new ride they can design to put into Five Wonders Theme Park.
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The Writing Process Poster - Portrait
A simple poster outlining the writing process.
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A Letter from the Goldfields - Writing Task
A writing task where students explain life on the Australian goldfields during 1852.
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Summer Santa on Vacation - Christmas Writing Prompts
Inspire hilarious Christmas narratives with a printable set of Santa on Vacation writing prompt worksheets.
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Halloween Creative Writing Prompts - Year 4 and Year 5
Develop narrative writing skills this Halloween season with a set of Halloween creative writing prompts for Year 4 and Year 5.
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What Should My Teacher Be For Halloween? Writing Activity Pack
Have your students decide and write about what costume the teacher should wear on Halloween with a differentiated Halloween writing activity.
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Easter Writing Prompts Worksheet
Explore imaginative writing in your classroom with these 3 fun story writing prompts for Easter.
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Five Wonders Theme Park: Takeout Takeover – Project
A project for students to create a menu and food truck model for Five Wonders Theme Park based on the Frida's Fiesta menu.
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Colossal Cinemas: Which Flavour Will Be Popular? – Project
A project in which students design and write a persuasive advertisement for their own popcorn flavour as well as a 3D popcorn container.
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Informative Texts Writing Task - Giza Pyramids
A fact file about The Giza Pyramids and scaffolding sheet which can be used to write an informative text.
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4 Star Writing Poster and Checklist Sheet
Is your writing 4 star writing? Ensure your students are double checking their work with these four stars.
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Experimenting with Poetry Unit Plan - Year 5 and Year 6
This English unit addresses the common elements of poetry and explores how these may be applied to shape poems, limericks, odes and simple ballads.
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Writing Informative Texts Unit Plan - Year 5 and Year 6
This English unit addresses the informative text type; specifically, how to write a well-structured informative text.
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Writing Narrative Texts Unit Plan - Year 5 and Year 6
This English unit addresses the narrative text type; specifically, how to write an engaging narrative text.
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Writing Persuasive Texts Unit Plan - Year 5 and Year 6
This English unit addresses the genre of persuasion; specifically, how to write an effective persuasive text.
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Introduction to Historical Recounts Unit Plan
This English unit has been designed to introduce the historical recount text type to older students; specifically, the purpose, structure and language features of factual historical recounts.
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Constructing a Persuasive Paragraph
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and use correct paragraph structure.
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Constructing a Paragraph - Modelled Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will correctly construct an informative paragraph.
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Persuasive Speeches - Constructing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will construct a persuasive speech using appropriate text structure, language features and devices.
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Persuasive Speech - Researching
A 60 minute lesson in which students will research evidence to include in a persuasive speech about a topical issue.
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Modelled Writing - Improving Persuasive Texts
A 60 minute lesson in which students will improve a persuasive text by applying knowledge of persuasive language features and devices.
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Writing a Narrative - Sensational Story Starters
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate exciting, attention-grabbing methods of starting a story.
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Narrative Features - Developing a Plot
A 60 minute lesson in which students will develop a plot for a narrative which includes a setting, characters and a problem to be solved.
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Using A Fact File - Shared Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will use a fact file and scaffolding sheet to write an informative text in pairs.
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Narrative Poetry - Simple Ballads
A 60 minute lesson in which students will plan and write a simple ballad.
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Shared Writing - Persuasive Letters
A 60 minute lesson in which students will write a persuasive letter using appropriate text structure, language features and devices.