Transform the Text- The Great Barrier Reef
Transform an informative text about the Great Barrier Reef into a persuasive text using learnt rhetorical devices. This worksheet includes suggested answers and can be used for joint class construction or individual assessment to monitor student progress.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to plan, create, edit and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts with correct text structure, tense, language features, vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and images.
- We are learning to plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts with correct text structure, language features and images for purpose and the audience.
- We are learning to re-read and edit work using agreed criteria and to explain our editing choices.
- We are learning to use software, e.g. MS Word or PowerPoint, learning new functions as required to create texts.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E6LY06
9
Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, using paragraphs, a variety of complex sentences, expanded verb groups, tense, topic-specific and vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and visual features
ACELY1714
8.4
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience
ACELY1715
8.4
Re-read and edit students’ own and others’ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choices
ACELY1717
8.4
Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts
EN3-2A
old
Composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts
EN3-OLC-01
new
Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding
EN3-VOCAB-01
new
Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts
EN3-CWT-01
new
Plans, creates and revises written texts for multiple purposes and audiences through selection of text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language
EN3-SPELL-01
new
Automatically applies taught phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts, and justifies spelling strategies used to spell unfamiliar words
EN3-HANDW-01
new
Sustains a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style
EN3-HANDW-02
new
Selects digital technologies to suit audience and purpose to create texts
EN3-UARL-01
new
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through narrative, character, imagery, symbol and connotation, and adapts these representations when creating texts
EN3-UARL-02
new
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through genre and theme that reflect perspective and context, argument and authority, and adapts these representations when creating texts
VCELY358
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience
VCELY359
Reread and edit own and others’ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choices
VCELY361
Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.