Writing

This term we will be focusing on:

Week 1: Poetry writing

Week 2-5: Biography writing

Week 6-8: Narrative writing


Writing progressions for your child can be found on Hero.


Writing Progressions Term 2


  • Vocabulary: Use words and phrases that are specific to the topic and purpose of writing

  • Editing: Use computer and print tools to help proof-read for accuracy of spelling, punctuation and grammar

  • Sentences: Write simple and compound sentences, using varied beginnings and lengths that are grammatically correct and complex sentences that are mostly correct



Week 2-5: Students will be focusing on learning and utilizing the features that are used to comprise a biography. Students will be selecting a famous pioneer who has been associated with the history of New Zealand and completing a published biography on them.


Week 6-8: Students will be immersed in Maori myths and legends. They will use their knowledge of how myths are constructed, and write their own myth in the form of narrative writing.