Text:

Alexanders Outing

Background Knowledge

Term: 1, 2012
Writing plan from Transformations

Writing workshops

What will my students need to know beforehand to

understand the story?

Identify the grammar skill for each cut

*Sydney landmarks-show pictures

*Bottle Trees
*Ducks
*Picnic: where to go, what to take.
* People in the Community
*Floating and sinking.

1. Sentence. The job of a full stop.

2. Brainstorm who words and write sentences
using who words. Eg. mother, brother.
3. Writing sentences using but.

Authors purpose: (structure of text)

/ Alexander / lived /
with / his mother and
his four brothers and

Pamela Allen has written this narrative to entertain

us so that we can enjoy it.
Authors stance: (a stand on a given issue)

sisters / in the most

Theme: (message or lesson conveyed by a text)

Getting together to help each other and cooperate
to solve a problem.

beautiful place / in the

LOLO Vocabulary

whole of Sydney,
HOLO
*repeated reading/ partner reading
*guided reading
*close passage

/ but / Alexanders

4. Prepositional phrases OR where words

Brainstorm using pictures.
5. Pictures of BIG where words
6. Where is it? Combine the two wheres.
7.Character names- write sentences using a
characters name.
Brainstorm Action words
8. Characters name, action and with (adding
extra information).

Writing
Joint Reconstructed Writing
Writing plan
9. JRW-... sisters
10. JRW- in the most Sydney
11. JRW- but bored.
12. Writing Plan: Modelled
13. Writing Plan: Guided- show picture
14. Writing Plan: Independent for those
who can/ guided.

*Sequencing activities.

*memory with tricky words

mother / was bored/./