This template is a terrific resource to use if looking to extend some students and encourage more detail in the usual weekend recount.
When the class is recording a general weekend recount, use this worksheet in a small teaching group or as an independent task to extend those writers who are ready to add more detail to their writing through the use of adjectives.
Explore how texts are organised according to their purpose, such as to recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain
Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways
Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose
Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways
Use an alternative planner that allows for drawing/recording basic ideas.