Writing Templates: Information Writing

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Standard Resource

Years: K-2, 3-4, 5-6

1 Pages

Product Code: TEAC1353

Resource Type: Classroom Resources

About this teaching resource

Writing templates are amazing tools to help a writer collect and organise information.

How To:
- Use them in the drafting process
- Prompt the reader to include non-fiction features such as headings, captions, labelled diagrams whilst gathering and presenting information
- Once the writer has gathered information, editing can be undertaken, which may include adding more pieces, rearranging the information, seeing the gaps.
Included in Writing Templates group of resources:
- Info Sheet
- Contents
- Description Writing
- Explanation Texts
- Information Writing
- Life Cycle Stages
- Time Lines
- Make Your Own
My Story:

My favourite experience with a Yr 2 class was using the drafting template to learn how to write about our school.
- They wrote about something familiar
- This piece remained as a draft. This was enough to support them to use the same drafting sheet to explore an animal of their choosing
- The writing, collecting process was seamless
- What was most fascinating was how students then reorganised their information into Mini Books
- All the information, all the features, were now presented in book form. That’s young writers who know what it is to be a writer!
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Australian curriculum alignment

Year 3

ACELY1782: Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print,and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose.

Year 4

ACELY1694: Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over textstructures and language features.

Year 5

ACELY1704: Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience.

Year 6

ACELY1714: Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience.