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S3 - Creating Written Texts
Aligned to the NSW Syllabus for The Australian curriculum (https://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/home)
- outcomes and content listed at bottom of page
- outcomes and content listed at bottom of page
*Research, Acknowledging Sources, Citation and Bibliographies - see Reading Comprehension
*Metaphor, Hyperbole, Oxymoron, Allusion, synonyms and Antonyms - see Vocabulary
Writing Prompts....
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also: Picture Writing Prompts
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Create Your Own Super Hero - marvelhq
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Newspaper Clipping Generator - fodey.com
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Wordshake - learnenglishkids
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The Writing Process...
Planning your writing - BBC Teach (video doesn't work but lots of fact sheets and worksheets are available)
Editing and proofreading - BBC Teach (video doesn't work but lots of fact sheets and worksheets are available)
Creative Writing Activities - PDF (twinkl.com.au) (subscription needed)
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Text Types ...
Text Types Teaching Resources (twinkl.com.au) (subscription needed)
Format and style - BBC Teach (video doesn't work but lots of fact sheets and worksheets are available)
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Persuasive
Writing to persuade guide for KS3 English students - BBC Bitesize (including a video)
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Win Them Over (ewritingforkids.org) (online interactive game)
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Narrative - Imaginative
Narrative Writing: A Complete Guide for Teachers and Students (literacyideas.com) - optional downloadable booklet available to purchase
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Image Creator from Microsoft Bing - create your own image prompts
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Descriptions & Characterisation - Informative
Descriptive writing guide - BBC Bitesize with a video
Writing Descriptions - (twinkl.com.au) (subscription needed)
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Character/setting descriptions - BBC Bitesize (video not available)
Characterisation - (twinkl.com.au) (subscription needed)
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Exposition - Informative
ReadWriteThink Interactives (dev-rwt-interactive-v2.azurewebsites.net) - (create a newspaper, brochure, flyer or poster online)
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Poetry
Haiku
Cinquain
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Limerick
Diamante
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Acrostic
Free Style
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Blackout poetry
Try this online Blackout Poetry Maker (uchicago.edu)
Rebus Writing - Twinkl (subscription required)
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How to Write a Concrete Poem – Kenn Nesbitt's Poetry4kids.com (aka Shape Poem)
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Grammar
Verb viper - arcademics
Skillwise word types... - bbc
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Skillwise - Past, present and future - bbc
Downloadable factsheets Skillwise sentence structure - bbc
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Road to grammar - roadtogrammar
Contractions - primarygames
Word Invaders - parts of speech - arcademics
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Thanks to Carol Martin for these great teaching videos.
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Punctuation
Skillwise punctuation - bbc
Punctuation - Year 5-6 (twinkl.com.au) (subscription needed)
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The full stop game - roythezebra
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Building up paragraphs - BBC Teach (video doesn't work but lots of fact sheets and worksheets are available)
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Spelling & Writing Resources
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Syllabus Outcomes
EN3-CWT-01 Plans, creates and revises written texts for multiple purposes and audiences through selection of text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language
Content
Imaginative purposes
Informative purposes
Persuasive purposes
Text features for multiple purposes
Sentence-level grammar
Punctuation
Word-level language
Planning, monitoring and revising
- Choose literary forms with appropriate text structures, features and language to engage target audiences
- Make creative choices about temporal and spatial settings, character profiles and motives to enhance reader engagement
- Experiment with characterisation
- Choose and control narrative voice across a text
- Experiment with the development of thematic elements
- Select and use poetic forms to descriptively express ideas
Informative purposes
- Choose text formats with appropriate text structures, features and language to inform target audiences
- Develop informative texts that include headings, ideas grouped into paragraphs that include a topic sentence, and a paragraph with concluding information
- Describe and/or explain ideas through logically sequenced paragraphs
- Compare and contrast or discuss cause and effect through sequenced paragraphs
- Create factual and historical accounts that incorporate broader contextual information
Persuasive purposes
- Choose text formats with appropriate text structures, features and language to persuade a target audience
- Group ideas to develop a statement of position, and clear, logical lines of argument that synthesise points, and structure a rhetorically effective conclusion
- Create objective, impersonal arguments
- Combine personal and objective arguments for persuasive effect
- Present arguments from one or multiple viewpoints to persuade target audiences
- Use rhetorical devices targeted to the audience
- Use modality to qualify or strengthen arguments
Text features for multiple purposes
- Control tense across a text according to purpose, shifting between past, present and future tense if required
- Maintain correct noun–pronoun referencing, subject–verb agreement and use temporal, conditional and causal connectives to build cohesive links across a text
- Use word repetition and word associations as cohesive devices across texts
- Substitute specific nouns with all-purpose words as a cohesive device to replace verb groups, noun groups or whole clauses
- Experiment with figurative language for effect and to engage the reader, including metaphor, hyperbole, oxymoron and allusion
- Create written texts that include multiple paragraphs with clear, coherent transition of ideas
- Choose multimodal features suited to a target audience and purpose, to reinforce and extend ideas
- Acknowledge sources of information to add credibility and authority to arguments and information
Sentence-level grammar
- Experiment with the use of non-finite verbs in adverbial clauses
- Make choices about verbs and verb groups to achieve precision and add detail
- Experiment with embedding adjectival clauses with the subject and/or object of other clauses, to modify the meaning or to add detail to a noun or noun group
- Experiment with the placement of adverbial clauses, to modify the meaning or to add detail to a verb or verb group
- Include appositives to provide details to nouns and to vary sentence structures suited to text purpose
- Create nominalisations to convey abstract ideas and concepts succinctly and authoritatively
- Make choices about the use of declarative, exclamatory, interrogative and imperative sentences to suit text purpose, and for meaning and effect
- Vary sentence structures or lengths when using simple, compound and complex sentences, with a focus on achieving clarity and effect suited to text purpose
Punctuation
- Use capital letters at the beginning of a sentence, to indicate proper nouns, for headings and subheadings, to indicate the beginning of a poetry line, for emphasis, and when using acronyms
- Use a comma to separate a subordinate clause or a phrase from the main clause, or to separate information within a sentence, or to separate items in a list
- Use quotation marks consistently across a text to distinguish words that are spoken by characters in dialogue or words authored by others
- Understand that texts, such as poetry, may include innovative use of punctuation, and experiment with punctuation to suit purpose and for effect
- Use parentheses in the first instance when abbreviating names using acronyms, and when acknowledging a source
- Experiment with dashes and parentheses for humorous or ironic effect
- Understand and use simple hyphenation generalisations
Word-level language
- Use topic-specific Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary intentionally to add credibility and enhance authority
- Experiment with word choices to create humour, for clarity or emphasis, to suit audience and purpose
- Control modality related to probability, occurrence, obligation or inclination for precision
- Select and use a range of synonyms in a longer text, for precision and to create variety for reader engagement
Planning, monitoring and revising
- Select text formats for combined purposes, creating hybrid texts for target audiences
- Use print or digital tools to plan, sequence, create, revise, edit and publish texts
- Research and summarise information from several sources to plan for writing
- Create texts using digital technologies suited to a target audience and purpose, to support and enhance the development of ideas
- Assess the reliability and authority of sources, including digital sources, when researching and acknowledging texts
- Reflect on own writing by explaining and justifying authorial decisions regarding text-level features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language
- Re-read, proofread and edit own and other’s writing, and use criteria and goals in response to feedback
updated April 2023
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