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Procedural Writing Activity - How to Make a Sundae

Updated: 20 Nov 2023

Inspire students to generate procedural writing texts with a fun, summer-themed end-of-year writing assignment and craft.

Editable: Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 5 Pages
Years: 1 - 3
Differentiated: Yes

Curriculum

VC2E1LA03

Explore how types of texts are organised according to their purpose, such as to recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain <ul> <li>discussing and comparing the purposes and organisation of familiar texts</li> <li>becoming familiar with the typical stages of types of texts, for example recount and procedure</li> <li>recognising that the structure of a text may include words and pictures; for example, an informative text may include words, illustrations and diagrams</li> </ul>
VC2E1LA10

Understand that written language uses punctuation such as full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, and uses capital letters for proper nouns <ul> <li>using intonation and pauses in response to punctuation, when reading</li> <li>identifying different sentence boundary punctuation, when reading</li> <li>writing different types of sentences (for example, statements and questions) and discussing appropriate punctuation</li> <li>identifying and using capital letters to name places and cultural festivals and holidays</li> </ul>
VC2E1LY13

Create short narrative and informative texts, written and spoken, on personal and learnt topics, including using some topic-specific vocabulary, appropriate multimodal elements, and a structure with an opening, middle and conclusion <ul> <li>applying emerging knowledge of text structure and grammar when creating text</li> <li>using learning area vocabulary when creating text</li> <li>creating digital images and composing a story or information sequence on-screen using images and captions</li> </ul>
VC2E1LY14

Re-read their own texts and discuss possible changes to improve meaning, spelling and punctuation <ul> <li>adding or deleting words on a page or screen to improve meaning; for example, adding an adjective to add meaning to a noun</li> <li>beginning to use dictionaries and resources to check and correct spelling</li> <li>identifying words that might not be spelt correctly</li> </ul>
VC2E1LY15

Write words using unjoined lower-case and upper-case letters <ul> <li>continuing to develop a functional pencil grip/grasp</li> </ul>

teaching resource

Procedural Writing Activity - How to Make a Sundae

Updated: 20 Nov 2023

Inspire students to generate procedural writing texts with a fun, summer-themed end-of-year writing assignment and craft.

Editable: Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 5 Pages
Years: 1 - 3
Differentiated: Yes

Inspire students to generate procedural writing texts with a fun, summer-themed end-of-year writing assignment and craft.

📖 Slide into Summer with Some Sweet Informational Writing

This end-of-year activity is an excellent way for students to show off their informational writing skills. Students will write an informational piece explaining how to make an ice cream sundae using pictures and words. They will then colour and craft their sundae to display their hard work.

Differentiated Procedural Writing Tasks for Early Writers

A team of dedicated, experienced educators created this resource to support your end-of-the-year lessons.

In addition to individual student work time, use this memory book to enhance learning through guided writing groups, whole class lessons, or remote learning assignments.

If you have a mixture of above and below-level learners, check out these suggestions for keeping students on track with the concepts:

🆘 Support Struggling Students

Help students who need help understanding the concepts by completing activities in small groups or a one to one session.

➕ Challenge Fast Finishers

For fast finishers, encourage students to write other “how-to” writings teaching others a process that they know how to complete.

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Curriculum

VC2E1LA03

Explore how types of texts are organised according to their purpose, such as to recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain <ul> <li>discussing and comparing the purposes and organisation of familiar texts</li> <li>becoming familiar with the typical stages of types of texts, for example recount and procedure</li> <li>recognising that the structure of a text may include words and pictures; for example, an informative text may include words, illustrations and diagrams</li> </ul>
VC2E1LA10

Understand that written language uses punctuation such as full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, and uses capital letters for proper nouns <ul> <li>using intonation and pauses in response to punctuation, when reading</li> <li>identifying different sentence boundary punctuation, when reading</li> <li>writing different types of sentences (for example, statements and questions) and discussing appropriate punctuation</li> <li>identifying and using capital letters to name places and cultural festivals and holidays</li> </ul>
VC2E1LY13

Create short narrative and informative texts, written and spoken, on personal and learnt topics, including using some topic-specific vocabulary, appropriate multimodal elements, and a structure with an opening, middle and conclusion <ul> <li>applying emerging knowledge of text structure and grammar when creating text</li> <li>using learning area vocabulary when creating text</li> <li>creating digital images and composing a story or information sequence on-screen using images and captions</li> </ul>
VC2E1LY14

Re-read their own texts and discuss possible changes to improve meaning, spelling and punctuation <ul> <li>adding or deleting words on a page or screen to improve meaning; for example, adding an adjective to add meaning to a noun</li> <li>beginning to use dictionaries and resources to check and correct spelling</li> <li>identifying words that might not be spelt correctly</li> </ul>
VC2E1LY15

Write words using unjoined lower-case and upper-case letters <ul> <li>continuing to develop a functional pencil grip/grasp</li> </ul>

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