Paragraph Building Workshop

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English

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Description

Build confident and capable writers with the Paragraph Building Workshop! This step-by-step resource helps students learn to construct strong paragraphs by focusing on key elements: topic sentences, supporting details, and concluding sentences. With practice activities and guided examples, students will develop their ability to write cohesive and meaningful paragraphs. Ideal for independent work, small groups, or whole-class lessons, this workshop reinforces essential writing skills while promoting creativity and clarity.

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Lesson Structure

Individual Activity
Rotations / Group Work
Class Activity

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Curriculum Codes

AC9E2LY06 9

Create and edit short imaginative, informative and persuasive written and/or multimodal texts for familiar audiences, using text structure appropriate to purpose, simple and compound sentences, noun groups and verb groups, topic-specific vocabulary, simple punctuation and common 2-syllable words

AC9E6LY06 9

Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, using paragraphs, a variety of complex sentences, expanded verb groups, tense, topic-specific and vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and visual features

AC9E4LY02 9

Listen for key points and information to carry out tasks and contribute to discussions, acknowledging another opinion, linking a response to the topic, and sharing and extending ideas and information

ACELY1688 8.4

Use interaction skills such as acknowledging another’s point of view and linking students’ response to the topic, using familiar and new vocabulary and a range of vocal effects such as tone, pace, pitch and volume to speak clearly and coherently

ACELY1687 8.4

Interpret ideas and information in spoken texts and listen for key points in order to carry out tasks and use information to share and extend ideas and information

ACELY1674 8.4

Construct texts featuring print, visual and audio elements using software, including word processing programs

ACELY1672 8.4

Re-read and edit text for spelling, sentence-boundary punctuation and text structure

ACELY1671 8.4

Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose

ACELY1714 8.4

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

ACELY1715 8.4

Re-read and edit students’ own and others’ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choices

ACELY1717 8.4

Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts

EN2-1A old

Communicates in a range of informal and formal contexts by adopting a range of roles in group, classroom, school and community contexts

EN3-2A old

Composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts

EN1-2A old

Plans, composes and reviews a small range of simple texts for a variety of purposes on familiar topics for known readers and viewers

EN1-3A old

Composes texts using letters of consistent size and slope and uses digital technologies

EN3-UARL-02 new

Analyses representations of ideas in literature through genre and theme that reflect perspective and context, argument and authority, and adapts these representations when creating texts

EN1-VOCAB-01 new

Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas

EN1-SPELL-01 new

Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling words in a range of writing contexts

EN1-PHOKW-01 new

Uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts

EN1-CWT-01 new

Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure

EN1-HANDW-01 new

Uses a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style, and digital technology, including word-processing applications, when creating texts

EN1-UARL-01 new

Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose

EN3-UARL-01 new

Analyses representations of ideas in literature through narrative, character, imagery, symbol and connotation, and adapts these representations when creating texts

EN3-HANDW-02 new

Selects digital technologies to suit audience and purpose to create texts

EN3-HANDW-01 new

Sustains a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style

EN3-SPELL-01 new

Automatically applies taught phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts, and justifies spelling strategies used to spell unfamiliar words

EN3-CWT-01 new

Plans, creates and revises written texts for multiple purposes and audiences through selection of text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language

EN3-VOCAB-01 new

Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts

EN2-OLC-01 new

Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting

EN3-OLC-01 new

Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding

VCELY307

Interpret ideas and information in spoken texts and listen for key points in order to carry out tasks and use information to share and extend ideas and use interaction skills

VCELY233

Construct texts featuring print, visual and audio elements using software, including word processing programs

VCELY231

Reread and edit text for spelling, sentence-boundary punctuation and text structure

VCELY230

VCELY358

VCELY359

Reread and edit own and others’ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choices

VCELY361

Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts

Differentiation

Modifications

•    Provide sentence starters for students needing additional scaffolding.
•    Allow students to draw pictures to accompany their paragraphs, aiding visual learners.
•    Offer verbal brainstorming sessions for students who find writing challenging.

EXTENSIONS

• Encourage advanced learners to write multiple paragraphs on a topic, linking them together for a more detailed explanation.
• Use the resource as a foundation for teaching different text types, such as persuasive or informative writing.

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