This pack includes various scaffolds to assist students when planning to write an imaginative text. These graphic organisers can be adapted to plan different types of stories.
Included in the pack:
*Story Mountain poster- A Story Mountain is a good visual representation to assist students in planning a text with a beginning, build up of tension, problem, resolution and ending.
*Story Mountain planner- Students can use this to plan an imaginative text, sequencing events in a logical order to create the plot. This scaffold can also be used to retell a story.
*Imaginative Text Planner- Student plan their writing, identifying characters, setting, beginning, middle and end.
*Character profile- This planner allows students to create a character, thinking about their physical appearance, actions they take and other personality traits.
Each activity card prints out A4 in size.
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purpose (ACELA1463)
Discuss how authors create characters using language and images (ACELT1581)
Discuss features of plot, character and setting in different types of literature and explore some features of characters in different texts (ACELT1584)
Innovate on familiar texts by experimenting with character, setting or plot (ACELT1833)
Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose (ACELY1671)
Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative (ACELT1599)
Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angle (ACELT1601)
Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts (ACELA1479)