Practising Paragraphs - Presentation
This comprehensive presentation about Paragraphs explains in detail, the importance and role of paragraphs and how to successfully structure paragraphs for imaginative, persuasive and informative texts. The presentation provides many examples with explicit breakdown of structure. The presentation has many activities for students to practice writing paragraphs.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts.
- We are learning to understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written 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 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
AC9E3LY06
9
Plan, create, edit and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive written and multimodal texts, using visual features, appropriate form and layout, with ideas grouped in simple paragraphs, mostly correct tense, topic-specific vocabulary and correct spelling of most high-frequency and phonetically regular words
AC9E3LA04
9
Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of the stages of written texts, grouping related information together
ACELY1683
8.4
Re-read and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation
ACELY1682
8.4
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
ACELA1479
8.4
Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts
EN2-9B
old
Uses effective and accurate sentence structure, grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary relevant to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
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-UARL-01
new
Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts
EN2-HANDW-02
new
Uses digital technologies to create texts
EN2-SPELL-01
new
Selects, applies and describes appropriate phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts
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
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
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
VCELA259
Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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Extensions
At the bottom of the page, there is a prompt for students to extend on the topic by writing an additional paragraph.
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