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The Kayaking Trip
Walt: write a narrative
Walt: use and write paragraphs, detailed sentences, juicy words, full stops, capital letters and correct spelling.
Instructions:
This week, you are going to write a narrative story of your own. You will only be given an overall theme for your story.
1. Read and think about the WALTs for this lesson
2. You will need to:
Plan your writing.
Think about how you are going to:
Start your story by writing about your characters (who) and the setting (where).
What is the problem in your story and how it is fixed.
Make your writing interesting
3. Make a copy of the Planning and Writing doc, Writing - Narrative September 2016 and put this into your writing folder. Then follow the instructions on the planning and writing doc.
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Pick a Path
Walt: write a story with different endings.
Instructions:
We are going to create some very exciting stories this week. You will get to choose to write a story about anything you want - super-heroes, aliens, ghosts, zombies, being lost, a volcano erupting etc. But your story is going to have two different endings. Your readers will get to pick what ending they want to read.
1. Click on the WALT above and as a class we will write down our solutions to how we are going to learn these.
2. As a class we will use the Plan - Pick a Path doc to plan what is going to happen in our stories.
3. We will then use Presentations to write our stories on so then people can click on what ending they want. Remember in your first paragraph you will need to describe the setting and your character. Then you will have to have a problem then two options to fix the problem.
Your story could also end up as big as you like with many different outcomes.
Links:
Planning Doc: Plan - Pick a Path
Template: Pick a Path (new)
Examples:
Mr Bax - Pick a Path Presentation
Marking Rubric:
PES Olympics Wheelbarrow Race
Walt: write an interesting recount by writing about our feelings and the feelings of others. Walt: group ideas into paragraphs.
Instructions:
Room 9 has just completed the PES Olympics wheelbarrow race. Apparently there was some cheating in the race? How did this cheating affect you and your race?
1. Click on the WALT above and as a class we will write down our solutions to how we are going to learn these.
2. As a class we will use the Brainstorm doc to make a list of some feelings and juicy words.
3. Make a copy of the planning doc: PES Olympics wheelbarrow race. Use the Brainstorm Doc to help you write an interesting recount which describes your feelings and the feelings of others in the race.
4. Make a copy of the Feelings & Paragraphs Rubric. Read your writing and mark on the rubric how you think you have done in your writing. Get a buddy to check it for you. Then take a screenshot and post it at the bottom of your writing on your blog.
Links:
PES Olympics Wheelbarrow Race - Brainstorm
Writing Doc: PES Olympics wheelbarrow race
Marking Rubric:
Winning Gold!
Walt: create mood in our writing
Instructions:
Imagine you have just won Gold at an Olympic Sport at Rio 2016 Olympics. You are now standing on the podium receiving your medal representing your country. What would it be like?
1. Click on the WALT above and as a class we will write down our solutions to how we are going to learn these.
2. Make a copy of the planning doc: Winning Gold - Planning.
3. As a class we will create a juicy word brainstorm to help you in your writing: Winning Gold! - Brainstorm
4. Make a copy of the writing doc: Winning Gold! Use your planning and the brainstorm to help you write a very detailed and descriptive story.
NZ Olympic Mascot
Walt: group ideas into paragraphs.Walt: add detail to our sentences to make our writing interesting.
Instructions:
We have been working hard on creating our own mascots if we had the Olympics in New Zealand. In our writing we are going to write a description of our mascot designs.
1. Click on the WALT above and as a class we will write down our solutions to how we are going to learn these.
2. Make a copy of the doc: NZ Olympic Mascot. Before you start create a word list to use when you are writing.
3. Post your comic strip to your blog and add a link to your writing doc. Then add your updated blog post to our blog log!
Creative Blogging
Walt: present our writing in interesting ways, so then people will want to read our stories.
Instructions:
We are going to start looking at some ways that we can make our writing on our blogs exciting and creative! By being creative we will make our blog audience interested in our writing and want to read it!
1. Click on the WALT above and as a class we will write down our solutions to how we are going to learn these.
2. Make a copy of the presentation: Comic Strip - Egg 20m Sprint. Use this template to add some photos and speech marks to mark a short comic strip about your Egg writing.
3. Tidy up your Egg 20m Sprint writing doc and share it so that anyone with the link can view it.
3. Post your comic strip to your blog and add a link to your writing doc. Then add your updated blog post to our blog log!
Egg 20m Sprint
Walt: group ideas into paragraphs.Walt: write an interesting recount by adding detail to the end of our sentences.
Instructions:
The Olympics have come to Pt England School! Apparently there is a new sport called the Egg 20metre Sprint. This week we will competing to see who is the Room 9 Egg 20m Sprint Champion.
1. Click on the WALT above and as a class we will write down our solutions to how we are going to learn these.
2. Make a copy of the doc, Egg 20m Sprint and follow your teachers instructions to write a very interesting recount.
3. Add some photos of you racing and then post your writing to your blog so people all around the world can read how you did in the PES Olympics Egg 20m Sprint Race.
4. Post to our new blog log!
We are the Champions
Walt: group ideas into paragraphs.Walt: write a recount
Instructions:
We are the Champions! This term we are learning all about the Olympics! So to begin we are going to write a recount about our school Immersion Assembly to share with our blog audience about what we are going to do this term. When we do this we will keep practicing writing a good recount with ideas that grouped into paragraphs.
1. Click on the WALT above and as a class we will write down our solution to how we are going to learn this.
2. Make a copy of the doc, We are the Champions and follow your teachers instructions to complete the task.
4. Share with the world your recount so then they know all about what you are going to be sharing on your blog this term.
5. Post to our new blog log!
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