Writing and Canberra

In class we have been focusing on writing explanations. Boys completed a large assignment on the Australian Government with a partner using their explanation writing skills. Yesterday boys finalised their explanation writing in a Common Assessment Writing task all about sailing. This was conducted in a similar fashion to the NAPLAN testing. Boys were given 5 minutes for planning, 90 minutes to write and 5 minutes to edit.

Our next text type will be expositions. All boys should be very familiar with this text type due to their NAPLAN testing last year. Boys have been asked to write their own expositions based on the 'Flag debate' as part of their homework. This is going to allow me to see where our class sits already with their knowledge of how to structure a persuasive piece of writing.

Although we will be learning about our text types in class, I have put a link below with some easy to read resources if anyone is getting stuck with their writing at home.

http://www.kidskonnect.com/subjectindex/20-educational/language-arts/350-writing-styles.html

Over the coming weeks leading up to Canberra, we will be reading, practising and writing our own persuasive pieces. Boys will also be practising note taking with informational texts about Canberra, the Australian Government and learning some mapping skills of Canberra.

On a side note, we still have lots of missing Canberra forms for camp. If you could please return them ASAP so we can put your child's details on the system we would really appreciate it.

Only a few more weeks!