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5 Procedural Writing Prompts

  • Updated

    Updated:  15 Apr 2024

Use this set of 5 procedural writing prompts to assess your students’ procedural writing skills.

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    Editable:  Google Slides

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    Non-Editable:  PDF

  • Pages

    Pages:  5 Pages

  • Curriculum
  • Years

    Years:  1 - 4

Curriculum

  • ACELY1661

    Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and diagramsElaborationsref...

  • ACELY1671

    Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose...

  • ACELY1682

    Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print,and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purposeElaborationsusing pri...

  • ACELY1694

    Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language featuresElaborationsusing re...

teaching resource

5 Procedural Writing Prompts

  • Updated

    Updated:  15 Apr 2024

Use this set of 5 procedural writing prompts to assess your students’ procedural writing skills.

  • Editable

    Editable:  Google Slides

  • Non-Editable

    Non-Editable:  PDF

  • Pages

    Pages:  5 Pages

  • Curriculum
  • Years

    Years:  1 - 4

Use this set of 5 procedural writing prompts to assess your students’ procedural writing skills.

Procedural Writing Prompts for Lower Primary

Have you been studying procedural writing with your students this term? Are you ready to see how well your students can write a procedural text on a topic of their choice? If so, Teach Starter’s procedural writing prompts could be exactly the resource you are looking for!

This resource has been designed as an assessment tool that can be used at the end of your procedural writing unit. Your students should be very familiar with the structure and language features of procedural writing before engaging with this resource.

Each writing prompt in this set focuses on a different topic. The five topics included are:

  • How to Make…
  • How to Play…
  • How to Plan…
  • How to Get Ready for…
  • How to Build a…

Students are encouraged to come up with their own ideas based on the broad topics above. For example, a student might choose the “How to Play…” prompt and then write a procedural text about how to play hide and seek. Another might choose the same prompt, but write a procedural text about how to play handball.

Teachers may wish to use one prompt for all students, or alternatively, students could choose whichever prompt they prefer.

Suggested Use for These Procedural Writing Prompts

You might like to follow the process below when using these procedural writing prompts with your class:

  1. Distribute the Prompt – Distribute the chosen prompt to your students. Read through it as a class and answer any questions about the upcoming task.
  2. Planning Time – Provide students with time to plan their piece of writing. Ten minutes should be sufficient.
  3. Writing Time – Provide students with an uninterrupted period of sustained writing time to complete their procedural texts.
  4. Editing Time – Provide at least five minutes at the end of the writing period for students to read over and make adjustments to their writing.

Download to Access These Procedural Writing Prompts

This resource downloads as a full-colour PDF, a black-and-white PDF and an editable  Google Slides file containing both the full-colour and black-and-white versions. Click on the Download button to access your preferred version. 

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