Writing
Please screenshot your Mr S cloud and add it to this slide before Wednesday...
Weeks 5/6
![](https://www.google.com/images/icons/product/drive-32.png)
WALT:
Use complex sentences to create interest in the text
Organise our ideas into paragraphs
Use personal voice to add effect.
Weeks 1/2 /3/4 Term 4
We Are Learning To:
Use a structure that is appropriate to purpose (Report Writing)
Organise ideas into paragraphs
Use some complex sentences to create interest.
Attempt to use commas independently
Week 10
COMMONWEALTH GAMES UNIT BELOW...
WRITING AND RECORDING A NEWS REPORT
Week 8 / T3 - Recounts
Literacy Unit Term 3 - The Commonwealth Games
(Report Writing)
Click on the link, make a copy, name it and share your work with me at nikki@levin.school.nz.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jNE0yKxCfDXHQ_tkdE0ejhJJdWgaWT9lBgmulgMepGQ/edit?usp=sharing
![](https://www.google.com/images/icons/product/drive-32.png)
Thank you cards,
Weeks 9/10 T2
We have a lot of people to thank this term. Get creative and create a beautiful card for your informal letter to go in to.
Choose one of the people Whaea Nikki has listed on the board to thank.
Click on the link below, make a copy, name it and share your work with me at nikki@levin.school.nz.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rlpl9hlWW9qi6F92bH52T9AmSPsFXLfWSSap_ohTvGM/edit?usp=sharing
![](https://www.google.com/images/icons/product/drive-32.png)
Matariki - Weeks 8/9 Term 2
![](https://www.google.com/images/icons/product/drive-32.png)
![](https://www.google.com/images/icons/product/drive-32.png)
Click on the link, make a copy, name it and share your work with me at nikki@levin.school.nz.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/173Uywc0GZn2xQHDCZbWF2chneijhRTbqBN1Ile5cAbU/edit?usp=sharing
Week 7 Term 2
Use this website to create your Sloppy Tiger / Greedy Cat picture book.
Join the site with your school email. Create a password that you will remember.
When you are finished we will publish it and share it with your friends and family.
![](https://www.google.com/images/icons/product/drive-32.png)
Weeks 3/4/5 Term 2
Click on the link, make a copy, name it and share your work with me at nikki@levin.school.nz.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xBea0X4cbuTj14xpZ6QUKDj5aTPGf-Qqx4aqovEO6vg/edit?usp=sharing
Week 2 Term 2
![](https://www.google.com/images/icons/product/drive-32.png)
WALT: Recognise the language features used in Persuasive Writing.
![](https://www.google.com/images/icons/product/drive-32.png)
Click on the link, make a copy, name it and share your work with me at nikki@levin.school.nz.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18pZdsAns46f4zTYUtUiRGVGmuCL0tBsy/view?usp=sharing
![](https://www.google.com/images/icons/product/drive-32.png)
Click on the link, make a copy, name it and share your work with me at nikki@levin.school.nz.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PM1n1q0NsB6ZQgTA-eS8sbIhrE50YfUj/view?usp=sharing
Week 1 Term 2
![](https://www.google.com/images/icons/product/drive-32.png)
When writing persuasively we need to know the difference between facts and opinions.
Make your own copy of this slide... AND REMEMBER TO SHARE IT WITH ME :)
Found Poetry
Can you make a piece of poetry from these pages from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
Find Chapter 15 at....https://fliphtml5.com/gryph/uuni/basic/101-148
Whaea Nikki's Writing Planning Weeks 7/8/9
![](https://www.google.com/images/icons/product/drive-32.png)
![](https://www.google.com/images/icons/product/drive-32.png)
Here is the link to the Department of Conservation page... https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-animals/
My Information report about a native New Zealand animal...
Click on the link, make a copy, name it and share your work with me at nikki@levin.school.nz.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qUglNpH5qBVeEKNCFajSvM5n6rolSE09QXFHKOLaOuM/edit?usp=sharing
Whaea Nikki's Writing Planning Week 5/6
WALT: Use verbs to write intructions
Watch this Youtube clip on "How to set up your Little Garden seedling kit"
What do we need to know before we get started?
![](https://www.google.com/images/icons/product/drive-32.png)
How to make Jelly.
Have you made Jelly at home before?
Watch this youtube clip on how to make Jelly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0xq-M_cIa0
Ask your grown up if they can get a jelly sachet the next time they go to the supermarket so you can make some too.
Now use the template below to write the instructions. Make it easier to follow by adding some pictures.
Make a copy, name it and share your work with me. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rSr0jsLnfapOJThpsgZpgY0hbFC7ZrQmNaIrmi-ESdc/edit?usp=sharing
Instructions...
Think of an everyday activity that you do without thinking.
It might be making a cup of tea or a bowl of porridge. It could be brushing your teeth or mowing the lawn.
Imagine if you were trying to explain step-by-step to an alien how to complete one of these activities.
Could you do it without leaving out an important step?
Use the template below to write the instructions. Don't forget to add some pictures this time.
Make a copy, name it and share your work with me. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rSr0jsLnfapOJThpsgZpgY0hbFC7ZrQmNaIrmi-ESdc/edit?usp=sharing
![](https://www.google.com/images/icons/product/drive-32.png)
Success Criteria
Using the success criteria here write your own set of instructions so other people will know How to set up your Little Garden seedling kit.
Click on the link below, make a copy, name it and share your work with me at nikki@levin.school.nz.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g5--y6oPl4_oTee1MQNE3EW2Z_VIt8Ktihl5EwWN924/edit?usp=sharing
Descriptive Writing
Click on the link below to find this sheet.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pQMkTDqKjxwmdYRUZKzbQ43rfXvSGkHOkCwzxkUIHuA/edit?usp=sharing
Now make and name your own copy to share with Whaea Nikki
Click on the link below to find this sheet.
Now make and name your own copy to share with Whaea Nikki
RECOUNTS
Click on the link, make a copy, name it and share your work with me at nikki@levin.school.nz.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kgy_GaB-jVwqBjYRfmsC2Mb3N-uvi9qccc8kvMTfCRo/edit?usp=sharing
![](https://www.google.com/images/icons/product/drive-32.png)
![](https://www.google.com/images/icons/product/drive-32.png)
Make your own copy of this success criteria once you have written your recount and add ticks to the chart.
Click on the link, make a copy, name it and share your work with me at nikki@levin.school.nz.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i4Wx9JCHa5bKehT2utje7TFoYqSIwX1U98I9NelkqG0/edit?usp=sharing
WALT: Write a recount about a time when you felt a strong emotion.
Click on the link, make a copy, name it and share your work with me at nikki@levin.school.nz.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TiBFzQ5hwRkGNsH0awSACTtjzma4rCvQamzIXWmnw8g/edit?usp=sharing
Make your own copy of this checklist... https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gGkR7OohokA9zAVmTodCgM9D7jtUwMvc/view?usp=sharing
South Australian Spelling Test
![](https://www.google.com/images/icons/product/drive-32.png)
South Australian Spelling Test
Part 1
![](https://www.google.com/images/icons/product/drive-32.png)
South Australian Spelling Test
Part 2
![](https://www.google.com/images/icons/product/drive-32.png)
South Australian Spelling Test
Part 3
Please make sure your name is on your piece of paper and hand it into your teacher.
![](https://www.google.com/images/icons/product/drive-32.png)
![](https://www.google.com/images/icons/product/drive-32.png)