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I Can Write A Retell
F Pre & Primary Essentials Worksheets English Examining Literature Creating Texts 1 Page

I Can Write A Retell

Retell Writing Assessment Template—an invaluable tool for evaluating students' retell writing proficiency. This blank template empowers young learners to visually depict the beginning, middle, and end of a story through drawings. Additionally, it provides dedicated space for students to compose a written retell, allowing them to showcase their storytelling skills in a structured way. A teacher checklist is included on the page for easy assessing. 
 

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Learning goals

  • We are learning to recognise characteristics of different types of texts, e.g. traditional beginnings and endings of fairy tales and rhyme in poetry.
  • We are learning to create and edit short written texts to record and report ideas and events using capital letters, punctuation and correct spelling of CVC words.
  • We are learning to identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text.
  • We are learning to edit texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops, for ourselves and others.
  • We are learning to construct texts using software including word processing programs, e.g. MS Word.
  • We are learning to create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to explore, record and report ideas using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge.

Curriculum alignment

ENe-3A old Produces most lower case and upper case letters and uses digital technologies to construct texts ENe-8B old Demonstrates emerging skills and knowledge of texts to read and view, and shows developing awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter ENe-10C old Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, simple ideas and the basic features of texts when responding to and composing texts ENe-2A old Composes simple texts to convey an idea or message ENE-UARL-01 new Understands and responds to literature read to them ENE-HANDW-01 new Produces all lower-case and upper-case letters to create texts ENE-VOCAB-01 new Understands and effectively uses Tier 1 words and Tier 2 words in familiar contexts ENE-SPELL-01 new Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies to spell taught familiar and high-frequency words when creating texts ENE-CWT-01 new Creates written texts that include at least 2 related ideas and correct simple sentences
VCELT149 Recognise some different types of literary texts and identify some characteristic features of literary texts VCELT150 Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text VCELY161 Participate in shared editing of students’ own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops VCELY160 Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge VCELY163 Construct texts using software including word processing programs

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

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