Activity summary

Students will work collaboratively to create short stories. They will record written responses to prompts given by the teacher and will fold their paper and swap paper with other students, together constructing a short story.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

understand that there are many different ways to create a story.

Success criteria:

Students can...

respond to verbal prompts in writing
think creatively to create elements of a story.

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This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

creativity
collaboration

Year 3 English:

Create and edit imaginative texts, using or adapting language features, characters, settings, plot structures and ideas encountered in literary texts (AC9E3LE05)

Year 4 English:

create and edit literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings (AC9E4LE05)

Relevant parts of Year 3 English achievement standards: Students create written and/or multimodal texts including stories to inform, narrate, explain or argue for audiences, relating ideas including relevant details from learnt topics, topics of interest or texts.

Relevant parts of Year 4 English achievement standards: Students create written and/or multimodal texts including stories for purposes and audiences, where they develop ideas using details from learnt topics, topics of interest or texts.

NSW Syllabus outcomes: EN2-11D

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Literacy, Numeracy

Blank A4 paper
Pens/pencils for writing.

This is an original Cool+ lesson.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - teachers will need to demonstrate how to fold the paper, and will need to read out the story prompts.

We don’t have any related professional courses for this lesson at the moment, but we do have heaps of other Cool professional learning here.

Meaningful Moments: Collaborative Class Stories

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