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Lessons 19: The Awapuni News!
Learning Intention
To re-create a news article about one of the following videos and reports for the Awapuni News Paper.
Success Criteria
To use descriptive language when retelling the story from the video in the Awapuni Newspaper
To summarise and put into your own words.
To write an article to capture the reader's attention and paint a picture in the reader's mind with your words.
Remember to link your 'Awapuni News' and post the finished product to your blog with quality STEMS.
Singing Bird
Singing Bird
Waddels the Duck
Waddels the Duck
From Trash to Space Hippie
From Trash to Space Hippie
The Earth has 5 Oceans!
The Earth has 5 Oceans!
Learn about the importance of the Antarctica's Southern Ocean.
Ring Of Fire
Ring Of Fire
Lessons 18: Blog Post
Learning Intention
1. Create a blog post about your persuasive writing experience and learning.
2. To comment on your writing buddies blog.
Success Criteria
Publish it to your blog with quality stems.
To comment on your writing buddies blog, it is positive, thoughtful & helpful?
Link your blog post comment to the tracking sheet.
Can you level up your STEMS?
Lessons 16 & 17: Editing and Publishing
Our Statement for Persuasive writing is
" Is it important to be prepared for Natural Disaster"?
Learning Intention - To edit your piece of persuasive writing and publish it onto a Google Slide.
Remember to check your planning template to remind you of the correct sequence for your persuasive writing, let's get writing!
Success Criteria:
To complete your editing of your draft persuasive writing in red to show all your changes.
To read your writing to check it makes sense.
To have successfully ticked off the checklist
To have competed your reference page
Remember to work independently when completing this task
Lessons 13, 14 & 15 : Pulling it all together
Our Statement for Persuasive writing is
" Is it important to be prepared for Natural Disaster"?
Learning Intention - Use the templates to start to write your persuasive writing.
Remember to check your planning template to remind you of the correct sequence for your persuasive writing, let's get writing!
Success Criteria:
Use the planning templates to sequence your writing
To have used the specific language e.g firstly, secondly ...
To have evidence to support your ideas
Remember to work independently when completing this task
Lesson 12 (Mrs Crane) : Pulling it all together - Planning
Our Statement for Persuasive writing is
" Is it important to be prepared for Natural Disaster"?
Learning Intention - To use the templates to start to plan your persuasive writing.
Now you have the direction of your persuasive writing (agree or disagree) let's use the planning templates to sequence your persuasive writing.
Success Criteria:
Use the planning templates to sequence your writing
Glue them into your writing books with the date
Remember to work independently when completing this task
Lesson 11 (Miss Mcdonald) : Researching
Our Statement for Persuasive writing is
" Is it important to be prepared for Natural Disaster"?
Learning Intention - To start researching some information about natural disasters.
Now you have some ideas about the direction of your persuasive writing (agree or disagree) let's find some supporting information.
Success Criteria:
Research about your topic and record the key information in your writing book. (note taking)
Create a Google document in your writing folder for a reference page
Remember to record the books name/author or the website address/ URL where you found the information so you can get back to it. (Reference Page)
Remember you can use the information gathered from our Inquiry lessons or in you reading groups about Natural Disasters.
Here are two website addresses to get you started...
Gisborne District Council Civil Defence
Gisborne District Council Civil Defence
Get Ready - NZ Government
Get Ready - NZ Government
Lesson 10 : Let's get started...
Our Statement for Persuasive writing is
" Is it important to be prepared for Natural Disaster"?
Learning Intention - To create a brainstorm about being prepared for a natural disaster.
Success Criteria:
To think about if you agree or disagree with the statement.
Create a brainstorm using keywords about why or why not it's important to be prepared for a Natural disaster.
Share your brainstorm with your writing buddy.
Lessons 6 & 7: Persuasive Writing
Learning Intention - To work with independently to reconstruct a piece of persuasive writing.
'Should NZ school children wear a uniform?'
Success Criteria:
to work independently to reconstruct the jumbled piece of persuasive writing.
to share your findings with your writing buddy. Did you reconstruct the writing the same? What was different? Why?
Share your findings in a class discussion.
Let's mark together.
Scanned Documents.pdfLessons 4 & 5: Persuasive Writing - Rubbish on the School Playground
Learning Intention - To work independently to deconstruct a piece of persuasive writing with students.
Success Criteria
to work independently
to deconstruct a piece of persuasive writing about rubbish on the school playground.
to share your findings with another buddy group. Did you deconstruct the writing the same? What was different? Why?
Share your findings in a class discussion.
Copy of Rubbish on the School Playgrounds Persuasive Reading Comprehension.pdfLesson 3: - Recount writing with Miss Malone
Learning Intention - To include powerful adjectives, verbs, adverbs and emotive words about a moment in time in the holidays.
Success Criteria
Brainstormed in your writing book keywords about something that you did in the school holidays. What happened? Who, Where? When?
To included a range of descriptive words, adverbs, verbs and tense.
I will have used emotive words to explain and describe a moment in time from the school holidays.
To paint a picture in the reader's mind using rich words.
Remember to link your mahi on the tracking sheet.
Lesson 2:
Learning Intention - To work with your writing buddy to reconstruct a piece of persuasive writing.
'Some people are not kind to their friends. I think we should look after friends because our friends are very important'.
Success Criteria:
to work collaboratively with your buddy
to discuss and highlight the key areas of persuasive writing
to share your findings with another buddy group. Did you reconstruct the writing the same? What was different? Why?
Share your findings in a class discussion.
sb10055.pdfLesson 1: What is Persuasive writing?
Brainstorm with your writing buddy what you know about persuasive writing.
Share you thoughts with another group?
Feedback to class.
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