Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Reflect on the school year with this end-of-the-year writing activity.
Monthly writing calendar with 240 writing prompts for the year.
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with issue 1 of Teach Starter's Grade 5 magazine.
A checklist for students to use when proofreading and editing their historical recounts.
A template for students to use when planning a recount.
A one page scaffolding sheet which can be used to write a recount.
20 writing prompts for April with corresponding writing sheets.
20 writing prompts for March with corresponding writing sheets.
How to hook your reader: 11 techniques to open your story with a bang and grab your reader's attention!
A set of 20 posters to display as narrative story prompts for students.
A 60 minute lesson in which students will independently write a historical recount using appropriate text structure, language and features.
A 60 minute lesson in which students will construct a historical recount about the development of a famous invention in pairs.
This English unit has been designed to introduce the historical recount text type to older students; specifically, the purpose, structure and language features of factual historical recounts.
This English unit addresses the common elements of poetry and explores how these may be applied to shape poems, limericks, odes and simple ballads.
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore some well-known and commonly used forms of fixed verse.