Hydro Tasmania - Theo Beluch (NAPLAN Writing Practice)

Students will complete a creative writing task based on factual stimulus material. They are asked to write a short story based on the life of one of Hydro Tasmania’s many workers, Theo Beluch, a Polish immigrant who came to Australia to work for ‘The Hydro’ in the 1950s.

Learning goals:

• This lesson is designed to provide valuable practice for NAPLAN*, the national literacy test held in Years 3 and 5. It features a creative writing task that requires students to use their imagination to expand on a nonfiction text.