Look and Write Cards - Narrative Prompts

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Description

The Look and Write resource cards have been created to encourage students to create extended noun groups, as well as extend their descriptions of people, places and things. They can be used in lower primary and work well in literacy rotations or as an activity for fast finishers.

Cards included in the Look and Write set:
- Around the Family
- Around the House
- Around the Shopping Centre
- At the Beach
- At the Fair
- At the Zoo
- At the Library
- Around my Suburb
- Around the Island
- Around the Playground

Suitable for

Fast Finishers
Relief Teachers
Parents

Lesson Structure

Individual Activity
Rotations / Group Work

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Curriculum Codes

AC9E1LY06 9

Create and re-read to edit short written and/or multimodal texts to report on a topic, express an opinion or recount a real or imagined event, using grammatically correct simple sentences, some topic-specific vocabulary, sentence boundary punctuation and correct spelling of some one- and two-syllable words

AC9E1LA06 9

Understand that a simple sentence consists of a single independent clause representing a single event or idea

AC9E2LA07 9

Understand that in sentences nouns may be extended into noun groups using articles and adjectives, and verbs may be expressed as verb groups

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

AC9E3LA03 9

Describe how texts across the curriculum use different language features and structures relevant to their purpose

AC9E1LA07 9

Understand that words can represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)

AC9E4LA09 9

Understand past, present and future tenses and their impact on meaning in a sentence

ACELA1452 8.4

Explore differences in words that represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)

ACELY1661 8.4

Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and diagrams

ACELA1468 8.4

Understand that nouns represent people, places, concrete objects and abstract concepts; that there are three types of nouns: common, proper and pronouns; and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives

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

ACELA1451 8.4

Identify the parts of a simple sentence that represent ‘What’s happening?’, ‘What state is being described?’, ‘Who or what is involved?’ and the surrounding circumstances

ACELA1478 8.4

Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose and context (for example, tense and types of sentences)

EN1-4A old

Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies

EN2-9B old

Uses effective and accurate sentence structure, grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary relevant to the type of text when responding to and composing texts

EN2-8B old

Identifies and compares different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an understanding of purpose, audience and subject matter

EN1-9B old

Uses basic grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary appropriate to the type of text when responding to and composing texts

EN1-3A old

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

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

EN2-RECOM-01 new

Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension

EN1-RECOM-01 new

Comprehends independently read texts that require sustained reading by activating background and word knowledge, connecting and understanding sentences and whole text, and monitoring for meaning

EN1-CWT-01 new

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

EN2-OLC-01 new

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

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

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-HANDW-01 new

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

VCELA179

VCELY194

Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements

VCELY197

Construct texts that incorporate supporting images using software including word processing programs

VCELA216

Understand that nouns represent people, places, things and ideas and include common, proper, concrete or abstract, and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives

VCELY230

VCELY231

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

VCELY233

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

VCELA246

Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose, audience and context, including tense and types of sentences

VCELA262

Understand that verbs represent different processes (doing, thinking, saying, and relating) and that these processes are anchored in time through tense

VCELA178

Identify the parts of a simple sentence that represent ‘What’s happening?’, ‘Who or what is involved?’ and the surrounding circumstances

VCELY195

Reread student's own texts and discuss possible changes to improve meaning, spelling and punctuation

Differentiation