Writing Activities: Personal Narrative, Description, Explanation and Persuasive Writing

Description

Stuck on ideas for writing? This resource has been designed to provide complete sets of writing activities for classroom teachers in a range of genres.

This pack includes writing activities for the genres of:

• Personal narrative
• Description writing
• Explanation writing
• Persuasive writing

Each writing activities set includes:

• A creative and engaging writing prompt (a memory, physical experience, video or idea generation activity)
• Ideas for oral language discussion
• A writing model (mentor text) to unpack language features and text structures
• A writing planner specific to the text type complete with additional learning scaffolds
• Writing frames
• In-depth teaching notes.

All writing experiences have been tried and tested in the classroom and are suitable for Years 3-8 (Grade 3-6) with separate writing models and planners for New Zealand Curriculum Level 2 and Level 3 & 4 (Grade 3-6).

This resource contains 46 pages.