Focus: using current events and clever inventions to motivate students for writing
Students could watch and discuss the video, then write an introduction, including details about the setting and characters. Their challenge could be to include a hook.
A big thank you to the teacher from Arawang School for sharing the two Year 5 student exemplars.
Images by David Mark (Pixabay).
For more engaging writing ideas, see our on demand workshop Generating ideas for writing.
Focus: using current events and clever inventions to motivate students for writing
Includes: a two talking strips
Focus: oral presentations
Focus: creating a vocabulary display that could support students to use more descriptive words in their writing