Writing to Inform Activities: Writing Experiences Phase 2-3 (Year 4-8)

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Spark excitement and develop writing skills in your classroom with these five sets of writing prompts and scaffolded writing activities. The activities cover writing to inform: information reports, explanation writing and biography writing.
 
They include engaging writing prompts, mentor texts, scaffolded material, and planning graphic organisers. This writing resource also includes in-depth teacher notes.
 
This resource aligns with the New Zealand English Curriculum for Phase Two and Three (Year 4-8).
 
British spelling is used throughout this resource.
 
This pack includes writing activities for the genre of:
  • writing to inform (information reports, explanations and biography writing).
Each writing activity set includes:
  • A creative and engaging writing prompt (a memory, physical experience, video or idea generation activity)
  • Ideas for oral language discussion
  • A writing model (mentor text) to unpack language features and text structures
  • A writing planner specific to the text type complete with additional learning scaffolds
  • Writing frames
  • In-depth teaching notes.
A full set for Year 4 and Year 5-8 is included for each set.
 
Writing prompts include experiences every child can relate to:
  1. How Do Dogs ‘See’ With Their Nose?
  2. How Does a Jellyfish Sting?
  3. Legends and Lives: Telling True Tales
  4. Ocean Guardians: Marine Line of Aotearoa
  5. Earthworms: Silent Masters of the Soil (Year 5-8)
  6. New Zealand Wētā: Ancient Spiky Survivors (Year 4)
All writing experiences have been tried and tested in the classroom and are suitable for Years 4-8.

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