Robot of the Year Project
Are you looking for a creative and fun way to help your students learn about persuasive writing? With this project, your students will be invited to design their very own robot for the ‘Robot of the Year’ design competition. Once their designs are complete, your students will complete the persuasive text template to try and convince the judges to choose their robot.
Learning goals
- We are learning to understand that speech, gestures, writing, symbols and icons e.g. emojis are used to communicate needs, likes and dislikes.
- We are learning to identify that texts serve different purposes and that this affects how they are organised.
- We are learning to create texts for a purpose that show our understanding of the connection between writing, speech and images.
- We are learning to edit our texts and make changes to improve meaning, spelling and punctuation.
- We are learning to use software, e.g. MS Word to construct texts and add images.
- We are learning to explore language to provide reasons for likes, dislikes and preferences.
- We are learning to recognise that texts have different features and purposes, e.g. recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain.
- We are learning to create, re-read and edit short written and multimodal texts to report on a topic, express an opinion or recount an event using capital letters, punctuation and correct spelling.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E1LA02
9
Explore language to provide reasons for likes, dislikes and preferences
AC9E1LA03
9
Explore how texts are organised according to their purpose, such as to recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain
AC9E1LY06
9
Create and re-read to edit short written and/or multimodal texts to report on a topic, express an opinion or recount a real or imagined event, using grammatically correct simple sentences, some topic-specific vocabulary, sentence boundary punctuation and correct spelling of some one- and two-syllable words
ACELA1447
8.4
Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways
ACELY1664
8.4
Construct texts that incorporate supporting images using software including word processing programs
ACELY1662
8.4
Re-read student’s own texts and discuss possible changes to improve meaning, spelling and punctuation
ACELY1661
8.4
Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and diagrams
ACELA1429
8.4
Understand that language can be used to explore ways of expressing needs, likes and dislikes
EN1-7B
old
Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter
EN1-3A
old
Composes texts using letters of consistent size and slope and uses digital technologies
ENe-6B
old
Recognises that there are different kinds of spoken texts with specific language features and shows an emerging awareness of some purposes for spoken language
EN1-2A
old
Plans, composes and reviews a small range of simple texts for a variety of purposes on familiar topics for known readers and viewers
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
EN1-HANDW-01
new
Uses a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style, and digital technology, including word-processing applications, when creating texts
EN1-SPELL-01
new
Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling words in a range of writing contexts
EN1-CWT-01
new
Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure
EN1-PHOKW-01
new
Uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts
EN1-VOCAB-01
new
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
EN1-OLC-01
new
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
VCELY197
Construct texts that incorporate supporting images using software including word processing programs
VCELY195
Reread student's own texts and discuss possible changes to improve meaning, spelling and punctuation
VCELY194
Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements
VCELA176
Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways
VCELA166
Understand that language can be used to explore ways of expressing needs, likes and dislikes
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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