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5 Star Writing Poster & Checklist
PDF | 2 pages|Grades: 1 - 5A poster and checklist highlighting five important items to double check when writing.
5 Star Writing:
- Capitalisation: Do my sentences start with capital letters?
- Spelling: Are all my words spelt correctly?
- Punctuation: Am I missing any punctuation?
- Word choice: Does my writing make sense?
- Neatness: Is it neat and easy to read?
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NSW Curriculum alignment
- EN1-5A
Uses a variety of strategies, including knowledge of sight words and letter–sound correspondences, to spell familiar words
- EN1-9B
Uses basic grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary appropriate to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
- EN2-2A
Plans, composes and reviews a range of texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and language
- EN3-2A
Composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts
- EN3-9E
Recognises, reflects on and assesses their strengths as a learner
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCELA190
Recognise that different types of punctuation, including full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, signal sentences that make statements, ask questions, express emotion or give commands
- VCELY231
Reread and edit text for spelling, sentence-boundary punctuation and text structure
- VCELY267
Reread and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation
- VCELY299
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 features
- VCELY300
Reread and edit for meaning by adding, deleting or moving words or word groups to improve content and structure
- VCELY329
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
- VCELY330
Reread and edit own and others’ work using agreed criteria for text structures and language features
- VCELY358
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience
- VCELY359
Reread and edit own and others’ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choices
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACELA1449
Recognise that different types of punctuation, including full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, signal sentences that make statements, ask questions, express emotion or give commandsElaborationsusing intonation and pauses in response to pu...
- 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...
- ACELY1662
Re-read studentâs own texts and discuss possible changes to improve meaning, spelling and punctuationElaborationsadding or deleting words on page or screen to improve meaning, for example adding an adjective to a noun (Skills: Literacy, Critical...
- ACELY1672
Re-read and edit text for spelling, sentence-boundary punctuation and text structureElaborationsreading their work and adding, deleting or changing words, prepositional phrases or sentences to improve meaning, for example replacing an everyday noun w...
- ACELY1683
Re-read and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuationElaborationsusing glossaries, print and digital dictionaries and spell check to edit spelling, realising that spell check accuracy depends on understanding ...
- 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...
- ACELY1695
Re-read and edit for meaning by adding, deleting or moving words or word groups to improve content and structureElaborationsrevising written texts: editing for grammatical and spelling accuracy and clarity of the text, to improve the connection betwe...
- ACELY1704
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audienceElaborationsusing research from print and digital resources t...
- ACELY1705
Re-read and edit studentâs own and othersâ work using agreed criteria for text structures and language featuresElaborationsediting for flow and sense, organisation of ideas and choice of language, revising and trying new approaches if an el...
- ACELY1714
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audienceElaborationscreating informative texts for two ...
- ACELY1715
Re-read and edit studentsâ own and othersâ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choicesElaborationsediting for coherence, sequence, effective choice of vocabulary, opening devices, dialogue and description, humour and pathos, a...
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Thanks. I’m looking forward to using it.
Kate Rennie · Dec 14th, 2014
This will be very helpful and useful next year when I am teaching 4th grade. Thanks
Sarah Raikabo · Dec 4th, 2014
This will be very helpful.
Bindy Cammell · Dec 3rd, 2014
Can’t wait to use these next term.
Val Crozier · Jul 7th, 2014