Teaching Resource
Choose Your Own Destiny - Writing Template
Students use a template to help them write stories with alternative pathways for their friends to read.
This teaching resource gives students the opportunity to write their own story with alternative story lines and endings. Use the Plan Your Own Adventure Template to help students to sequence and plan their ideas before writing. Give students adequate time to write their narrative stories. Allow students to share their work with their peers, either in pairs or as a whole class share. The class will be excited to request which path they want read to them.
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NSW Curriculum alignment
- EN2-1A
Communicates in a range of informal and formal contexts by adopting a range of roles in group, classroom, school and community contexts
- EN2-7B
Identifies and uses language forms and features in their own writing appropriate to a range of purposes, audiences and contexts
- EN2-8B
Identifies and compares different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an understanding of purpose, audience and subject matter
- EN2-11D
Responds to and composes a range of texts that express viewpoints of the world similar to and different from their own
- EN2-12E
Recognises and uses an increasing range of strategies to reflect on their own and others’ learning
- EN3-1A
Communicates effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes using increasingly challenging topics, ideas, issues and language forms and features
- EN3-2A
Composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts
- EN3-7C
Thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCELT282
Make connections between the ways different authors may represent similar storylines, ideas and relationships
- VCELT298
Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining
- VCELT306
Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view
- VCELT328
Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced
- VCELT356
Create literary texts that adapt or combine aspects of texts students have experienced in innovative ways
- VCELT283
Describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts
- VCELT314
Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features on particular audiences
- VCELT327
Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors
- VCELT355
Experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating literary texts
- VCELT284
Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACELT1602
Make connections between the ways different authors may represent similar storylines, ideas and relationshipsElaborationscommenting on how authors have established setting and period in different cultures and times and the relevance of characters, ac...
- ACELT1603
Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of viewElaborationssharing and discussing studentsâ own and othersâ understanding of the effects of particular literary techniques on their appreciation of t...
- ACELT1605
Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readersâ interest by using various techniques, for example character development and plot tensionElaborationsexamining the authorâs description of a c...
- ACELT1607
Create literary texts that explore studentsâ own experiences and imaginingElaborationsdrawing upon literary texts students have encountered and experimenting with changing particular aspects, for example the time or place of the setting, adding ...
- ACELT1612
Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experiencedElaborationsusing texts with computer-based graphics, animation and 2D qualities, consider how and why par...
- ACELT1618
Create literary texts that adapt or combine aspects of texts students have experienced in innovative waysElaborationscreating narratives in written, spoken or multimodal/digital format for more than one specified audience, requiring adaptation of nar...
- ACELT1604
Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary textsElaborationsexamining the authorâs description of a characterâs appearance, behaviour and speech and noting how the characterâs d...
- ACELT1794
Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settingsElaborationscollaboratively plan, compose, sequence and prepare a literary text along a familiar storyline, using film, sound and images to convey setting, characters and points o...
- ACELT1795
Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features on particular audiencesElaborationsorally, in writing or using digital media, giving a considered interpretation and opinion about a literary text, recognising t...
- ACELT1798
Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authorsElaborationsdrawing upon fiction elements in a range of model texts - for example main idea, characterisation, setting (time and place), narrative ...
- ACELT1800
Experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating literary texts, for example, using imagery, sentence variation, metaphor and word choiceElaborationsselecting and using sensory language to convey a vivid picture of ...
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