Writing Templates: Life Cycle 4 Stages

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Standard Resource

Years: K-2, 3-4, 5-6

1 Pages

Product Code: TEAC1355

Resource Type: Classroom Resources

About this teaching resource

Writing templates are amazing tools to help a writer collect and organise information.

How To:

Use them in the drafting process
Prompt the reader to include non-fiction features such as headings, captions, labelled diagrams whilst gathering and presenting information
Once the writer has gathered information, editing can be undertaken, which may include adding more pieces, rearranging the information, seeing the gaps.

Included in Writing Templates group of resources:

Info Sheet
Contents
Description Writing
Explanation Texts
Information Writing
Life Cycle Stages
Time Lines
Make Your Own

My Story:

My favourite experience with a Yr 2 class was using the drafting template to learn how to write about our school.

They wrote about something familiar
This piece remained as a draft. This was enough to support them to use the same drafting sheet to explore an animal of their choosing
The writing, collecting process was seamless
What was most fascinating was how students then reorganised their information into Mini Books
All the information, all the features, were now presented in book form. That’s young writers who know what it is to be a writer!

Australian curriculum alignment

Year 3

ACELY1782: Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print,and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose.

Year 4

ACELY1694: Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over textstructures and language features.

Year 5

ACELY1704: Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience.

Year 6

ACELY1714: 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.