CHALLENGE WRITING PLANNER

Narrative and Persuasive

AREA e5 PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
IMPROVE: Establishing learning goals

Term: 2

Week: 4

Topic: Adjec, Adv /

PRACTISE: Editing Skills, Narrative & Persuasive Writing Abilities

HABITS OF MIND: Striving For Accuracy and Thinking About My Thinking, To improve the quality of my writing and practising my editing skills.

Learning Intent

Tool

Session 1

Learning Intent:
I am learning about the h
as in house phoneme and j
as in jelly phoneme.

Session 2

Soundwaves
Complete activity 5 from
both phoneme sounds for
both
levels.Intent:
Learning
I am exploring what makes
an adverb, adjective, verb
and noun.

Session 3

Learning Intent:
I am learning how to write a
detailed narrative story in
the allocated time limit (40
Min).

Session 4

Session 5

Soundwaves
Complete activity 6 and
Challenge for both levels.

Soundwaves

Learning Intent:
G3: I am practising my skills
in persuasive writing in an
allocated time limit (40
Min).

Learning Intent:
I am showing my
understanding of h
phoneme words as in
health. I am also showing
my understanding in j g ge
dge phoneme words as in
juice and giraffe.

G4: I am learning about how

to add adjectives and
adverbs into sentences to
make them more
interesting.

Discuss the position of the

sounds in each word and
the graphemes that make
this sound.

TimeSummary
TaskIndividual

Whole Group Task

Brainstorm words that fit

the phoneme sounds. Do
you hear the phoneme
sounds? What letters make
the phoneme sound?
Play Find a Word. See
attachment.

Run an active activity in the

room of Four Corners.
1 corner are adjectives
1 corner are adverbs
1 corner are verbs
1 corner are nouns
Run through combinations
of words that cover all four
of these areas mentioned
above. Once you have read
the word get the students to
move to the corner that the
word belongs in. Write these
designated areas on the
board so assist students.
This list does contain more
adjectives and adverbs than
the other two; this is
because they are our
learning intent. Have a
poster on the board to write
the words on once the class
has played Four Corners
with that word.

Soundwaves
Complete Unit 12, 1 to 4 of
both pages (Grade 3) and
Unit 12, 1 to 4 (Grade 4) of
Soundwaves
What facts can we write
about h as in house and j
as in jellyfish phoneme
sound?

Select students to explain

why they have gone to a
particular corner. After
explanations ask any
students to change if they
want to but have to explain
As a class put up 1 boring,
bland sentence on the board
for all students to copy into
their writing books. They
then underneath that boring
copied sentence add
Discuss what makes an
adjective, adverb, verb or
noun and what strategies
we will now know for future
to help us distinguish

Revise the components of a

narrative writing piece.
Orientation: How can you
begin your story? I can
begin with conversation,
explanation of setting or
information of the
character/s.
Complication: The problem
cant be resolved with
quickly, the characters have
to take steps to resolving
the issue.
Resolution: No waking up
it was a dream endings but
mention that the ending can
be a happy ending, sad
ending or could be a
cliffhanger.
Coda/ Ending (Optional):
1 to 2 sentences to tie up
loose ends in the story E.g
the girls decided to never be
silly again.
Introduce and discuss the
writing prompt planning
sheet: Writing Stimulus
Planner.
Grade 3 & 4: 40 minutes to
complete Narrative writing
piece in allocated time.
5 Minutes Planning
30 Minutes Writing
5 Minutes Revise and Edit
Reconfirm what elements
make a narrative writing
piece, making links to
narrative writing poster in
classroom for a visual cue.

Go through the elements

that are important in
persuasive writing:

Introduction

3 or more body
arguments with
supporting details,
Each argument to have two
persuasive techniques

Post testing h phoneme

words as in health
j g ge dge phoneme words
as in juice and giraffe
words.
Remind rules of testing each
other.
Test and collate results.
Pre test unit 13 ai ay a_e a
as in a mate and became.

Conclusion Sum up the

arguments and include
an action.

(Show your persuasive

poster on the board to help
visual learners).
Introduce and discuss the
topic All Children Should
Walk To School.
Hand out and discuss
Persuasive Planner Map for
children to plan text.

Grade 3: 40 minutes to
complete Persuasive Writing
piece in allocated time.
5 Minutes Planning (use
planner)
30 Minutes Writing
Reconfirm the main points
of a persuasive writing piece
that the students need to
remember while also
consolidating those

Complete Soundwaves
book if not completed.
Children to write out list of
weekly homework words in
books.
Discuss results of h and
also j g ge dge spelling
test.
Who is happy with their