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Term 2, Week 1 - Holiday Narrative

WALT: Write a narrative that uses descriptive language, using something you or your whānau did during the school holidays for inspiration.

Writing Focus:Write a narrative, using something you did in your holidays for inspiration.Use descriptive language that makes your story interesting.Remember a narrative has a beginning, a middle where there is a problem or complication that the characters encounter, and an end where the problem or complication is solved and 'loose' ends are tied up.Use correct punctuation, when a character is talking use speech marks.

D.A.O.T: Get learners to turn to their partners to discuss what they did in the holidays with their whanau or friends. Give them 5 mins. Instead of writing a recount like we normally do, we are going to choose something we did in the holidays, and use this as the idea to inspire us to write a narrative. Discuss what a narrative actually is.. A MADE up story, it is fiction, the characters and settings can be real but the story is fictional. Show the learners the youtube clip (see site) on narratives. Discuss the parts of a narrative and the special traits they have: characters, plot - there needs to be a conflict or problem, POINT of view - first person or third person, stick with ONE, in My example I have told the story in third person, I am out of the story and not a character. Monday learners need to aim to FINISH their introduction.

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Term 2, Week 2 - Pikelet Recount

WALT: Write in the style of recount, writing about an event that happened in the past, and re-telling the sequence of events in the correct order. Our recount will use descriptive words that entertain and draw interest from our blog audience.

TASK: Write a recount about our experience as a literacy class of making pikelets.

D.A.O.T: Get your learners to turn to their buddy (or make a small group). Get them to discuss the KEY FEATURES OF A RECOUNT, what are the things that make something a recount (aiming for; it talks about an event that has HAPPENED, uses past tense, has an introduction that talks about who, what, when, where, why and how - but doesn’t yet go into detail, the sequence of events are told in order and use connectives, in the conclusion, the writer reflects on their feelings about the experience they have recounted. Wednesday: Do the experience of making pikelets in groups. Wednesday - write introduction and at least half of the sequence of events, Thursday - finish off writing and proofread.

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