Includes: template, exemplar (Junior/Senior)
Focus: informal, descriptive writing
During the 2015 AAEA/ALEA national conference in Canberra, Kath Murdoch talked about teachers nurturing students’ natural curiosity. She shared a model for developing curiosity and effective questioning:
You could use this model for Describe it (page 106 of The Writing Book).
Student example 1
Nola Sutherland from Mt Roskill Primary in Auckland posed the following questions to her Year 5 class in 2018: 'What's happening here?' and 'What do you notice?' and her students recorded their ideas.
Student example 2
A big thank you to Carli Ramsey from Parkside School in Adelaide for sharing this example on our Facebook page.
For more engaging writing ideas, see our on demand workshops.
Includes: template, exemplar (Junior/Senior)
Focus: informal, descriptive writing
Includes: PDF template to make a memory box to store a memory poem
Focus: writing a poem about special memories and storing it in the memory box
Includes: PDF of Self-check and Partner-check signs in te reo Maori
Focus: identifying a focus for proofreading (self-check) and recrafting writing based on the success criteria (Partner-check)
