Writing Goals | Learning Intentions | Beginning Writers

PREMIUM RESOURCE | Sixteen writing goals for early writers. These may be used as current learning progression goals, next step or achievement goals. An example Writing Goal Board and writing goal list is included in the resource.

SMART RESOURCE | An essential resource for the management of writing groups during a class writing session. The students work independently or within groups to complete a sequence of tasks. The teacher is then free to focus on group writing or teacher conferencing. Included is a list of tasks and an explanation of the Author’s Chair activity.

SMART RESOURCE | The resource supports the student’s completed recount writing; the time when they reflect upon their work. Here are two suggestions for the use of this resource: 1. Students evaluate their writing against the set Self-Reflection success criteria sheet; or 2. Students select the success criteria from the Self-Reflection sheet that they have been focusing on in their writing, record it on the template, and then complete the self-assessment. Finally, the student is asked to think about and record the next step to further improve their play writing. The resource also includes a certificate to celebrate the student’s work.

PREMIUM RESOURCE | An all-inclusive resource for recount writing which includes an explanation of the text structure, writing planner (graphic organiser), student learning goals - (recount structure, language features, editing and proofreading) two self-reflection sheets and an achievement certificate. The main focus of this resource is to help the student to understand the purpose, organisation, structure and language features of recount writing.