Writing for publication

Teacher Phil Coogan

Year	Level	Duration
10	4-6	3 weeks

Achievement objective being assessed	Learning outcomes
Poetic Writing	Processed and published one piece of poetic writing.
Processes
Exploring Written Language	Increased understanding of how to use selected aspects of language to improve their writing during the writing process.
Supporting achievement objective	Learning outcomes
Interpersonal Speaking and Listening	Taken part in small group discussions which focused on listening and speaking to improve their own writing and the writing of others.
Presenting	Used word processors and/or publishing software to communicate their stories to a wider audience.

Teacher background reading

Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:

Publication of a piece of processed poetic writing suitable for publication in a class magazine.

Teachers should have shared the assessment schedule with learners early in the writing process (see above).

Completion of this task may fulfil part of the range statement for level 1 unit standard 8813 "Produce poetic writing ...etc".

World Wide Web, computers, poems, short stories, films, dictionary, thesaurus, links highlighted in this site.

This unit highlighted the need to focus on: