Lesson 9: Pre-writing

Duration of lesson: 60 minutes

Lesson objective: For students continue writing their drafts.
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and
experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources
appropriate to purpose and audience(ACELY1714)
Classroom organisation: Individual work
Resources: Paper and pencils, Tompkins, G. (2012). Literacy for the 21st century: a balanced
approach. China: Pearson Australia, Lesson adapted from http://www.project-text.eu/steps-
to-write-a-short-story/
Learning experiences:
1. Once you plan out everything you possibly can its time to start writing your story.
This is when you start turning your plans and notes into a story. You start writing
some of your scenes and finding out if there is anything you want to change about the
make-up of your story. This is when the structure of your story becomes clear in your
writing.
2. Prompt children to follow the checklist structure for the Autobiography Achievement
Story:

I have:
Planned my chapter and chosen a specific event to write about
Used first person narrative ( I )
Used a range of vocabulary. I have tried to use effective verbs and adjectives to add
interest.
Set my chapter out into paragraphs (TIPTOP)
Started my chapter in an engaging way, using action, description or dialogue.
I have tried to use similes and metaphors in my chapter to put images in the readers
mind
Ended my chapter by using the pronoun you and directly speaking to the reader.

3. At the end of the lesson prompt children to move their I.D further up the mountain