Small Ideas, Big Stories (Narrative Writing NAPLAN)

Australian Curriculum content descriptions:

Year 3 English:

• Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angle (ACELT1601).
• 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 (ACELY1682).

Syllabus outcomes: EN2-2A.

General capabilities: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking.

Relevant parts of Year 3 English achievement standards: Students understand how content can be organised using different text structures depending on the purpose of the text. They create a range of texts for familiar and unfamiliar audiences, and re-read and edit their writing, checking their work for appropriate vocabulary, structure and meaning.

Unit of work: Faber-Castell – NAPLAN Preparation.

Time required: 120 minutes.

Level of teacher scaffolding: High – much roaming and conversation with individuals and small groups will be required to support students with ideas development.

• Interactive whiteboard or projector with sound and internet access.
• Blank sheets of paper/sketch books for each student
• Writing paper or writing books for each student
• Pens/pencils
• Example Narrative Plan
• Peer Feedback template

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• Collaboration
• Communication
• Creativity
• Critical thinking

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