This teaching resource gives students the opportunity to plan their own narrative story to write with alternative story lines and endings.

Students plan their writing with a solid beginning, then create alternative storylines which lead in different directions. After they have planned all their storylines, they can use the Choose Your Own Destiny Template to create their preferred storyline.

Australian Curriculum alignment

English > Year 4 > Literature > Literature and context > 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 cult...

English > Year 4 > Literature > Responding to literature > ACELT1603
Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of viewElaborationssharing and discussing students’ own and others’ understanding of the effects of particu...

English > Year 4 > Literature > Examining literature > ACELT1605
Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques, for example character development and plot tensionElaborat...

English > Year 4 > Literature > Creating literature > ACELT1607
Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imaginingElaborationsdrawing upon literary texts students have encountered and experimenting with changing particular aspects, for...

English > Year 5 > Literature > Creating literature > 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, an...

English > Year 6 > Literature > Creating literature > 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 o...

English > Year 4 > Literature > Responding to literature > ACELT1604
Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary textsElaborationsexamining the author’s description of a character’s appearance, behaviou...

English > Year 4 > Literature > Creating literature > 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...

English > Year 5 > Literature > Responding to literature > 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 interpretatio...

English > Year 5 > Literature > Creating literature > 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, char...

English > Year 6 > Literature > Creating literature > 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 us...

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