Teacher Linda Chapman
| Year |
Level |
Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 4-5 | 2-3 | 5-6 weeks/a term/all year |
| Achievement Objective Being Assessed |
Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| Poetic Writing | Write on a variety of topics, shaping ideas, using graphic organisers, journals and different genre. |
| Make choices in using language and form. Publish work that has been shaped and crafted and prepared for a particular audience. | |
| Processes | |
| Exploring Language | Explore choices made by favourite writers and identify and use common writing conventions. Apply these ideas to their own writing and use these language features to improve their skills. |
| Thinking Critically |
Draw on personal experiences and knowledge to express meanings in written text. Show awareness of how written texts can explore relevant experiences and others' points of view. |
| Supporting Achievement Objective |
Learning Outcomes |
| Expressive Writing | Write regularly, spontaneously and with ease to express personal responses different experiences and to record observations and ideas through the use of a journal. |
Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:
Begin by giving the children an exercise book and a notebook. The exercise book becomes their personal journal and the notebook a "writing ideas" book. Explain that these will be used for the duration of the unit and should be kept close for jotting down ideas.
Publication of a piece of poetic writing, selected from journal entry, that has been drafted, reworked, proof read. Share with students, prior to writing, the assessment key indicators.
assessment (RTF 9KB)
self_assessment (RTF 390KB)
self_evaluation (RTF 250KB)
English Exemplar Project: Personal Experience Writing levels 1-5
Published on: 23 May 2009
