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A Letter to the Wolf
1 2 3 Pre & Primary Essentials Resources Worksheets World Storytelling Day English Text Structure & Organisation Examining Literature Engaging With & Responding to Literature Analysing, Interpreting & Evaluating Creating Texts 1 Page

A Letter to the Wolf

Write a persuasive letter to Mr Wolf, outlining your opinions about his bad behaviour and what he can do to change his unkind character traits in the future.

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Learning goals

  • We are learning to share and listen to reasons for personal preferences.
  • We are learning to identify the audience and main purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, e.g. Dreaming stories, advertisements and signs.
  • We are learning to identify the audience and main purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts.
  • We are learning to identify the audience and purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts.
  • We are learning to identify the audience and purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts.
  • We are learning to plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using text structures and language features appropriate to the audience and purpose.
  • We are learning to re-read and edit texts for appropriate meaning, structure, grammatical choices and punctuation.

Curriculum alignment

EN1-7B old Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter EN2-8B old Identifies and compares different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an understanding of purpose, audience and subject matter EN1-11D old Responds to and composes a range of texts about familiar aspects of the world and their own experiences EN2-2A old Plans, composes and reviews a range of texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and language EN2-3A old Uses effective handwriting and publishes texts using digital technologies EN2-CWT-03 new Plans, creates and revises written texts for persuasive purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience EN2-CWT-02 new Plans, creates and revises written texts for informative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience EN2-CWT-01 new Plans, creates and revises written texts for imaginative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience EN2-RECOM-01 new Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension EN2-VOCAB-01 new Builds knowledge and use of Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, and by defining and analysing words EN2-OLC-01 new Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting EN2-SPELL-01 new Selects, applies and describes appropriate phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts EN2-HANDW-02 new Uses digital technologies to create texts EN1-UARL-01 new Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose EN2-UARL-01 new Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts
VCELY266 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 VCELY269 Use software including word processing programs with growing speed and efficiency to construct and edit texts featuring visual, print and audio elements VCELY267 Reread and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation VCELT206 Express preferences for specific texts and authors and listen to the opinions of others

Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.

Differentiation

Extensions

Think of another fairy tale villain to write a persuasive letter to.

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