Teaching Resource
Informative Texts Writing Task - Gemstones
A writing activity to help students construct an informative text based on factual information.
Use this teaching resource when teaching informative writing to your students.
Students read the information on the fact file about gemstones.
Using the worksheet provided, students turn the dot point notes from the fact file into full sentences.
Students then use these sentences to write an informative text about gemstones, using the scaffold provided.
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NSW Curriculum alignment
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCELY266
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 purpose
- 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
- 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
- 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
Australian Curriculum alignment
- 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 purpose
- 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 features
- 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 audience
- 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 audience
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Looking forward to using these resources to with my class.
Dianne Dendle · Jun 14th, 2017
I hope you really enjoy using these, Dianne. I really enjoyed writing the content and I love the images that our designers created. Hopefully your students will find them engaging, too!
Stephanie (Teach Starter) · Jun 16th, 2017