This task asks students to follow the process of writing a narrative to create their version of a familiar story. Students are provided with a checklist page that prompts them through each stage of writing and pages that can be used to produce their final copy. This activity can be used as a formative or summative assessment task.
Plan, create, edit and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive written and multimodal texts, using visual features, appropriate form and layout, with ideas grouped in simple paragraphs, mostly correct tense, topic-specific vocabulary and correct spelling of most high-frequency and phonetically regular words
Create and edit imaginative texts, using or adapting language features, characters, settings, plot structures and ideas encountered in literary texts
Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angle
Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts, for example characterisation, rhyme, rhythm, mood, music, sound effects and dialogue
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print,and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose
Re-read and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation
Use software including word processing programs with growing speed and efficiency to construct and edit texts featuring visual, print and audio elements
Plans, composes and reviews a range of texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and language
Uses effective handwriting and publishes texts using digital technologies
Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting
Builds knowledge and use of Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, and by defining and analysing words
Plans, creates and revises written texts for imaginative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
Plans, creates and revises written texts for informative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
Plans, creates and revises written texts for persuasive purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
Selects, applies and describes appropriate phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts
Uses digital technologies to create texts
Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts
Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures including through the use of visual features
Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose
Reread and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation
Use software including word processing programs with growing speed and efficiency to construct and edit texts featuring visual, print and audio elements