Stories of Success - NAPLAN Style Narrative Writing

Australian curriculum content descriptions:

Year 9 English:

• Understand that authors innovate with text structures and language for specific purposes and effects (ACELA1553)
• Identify how vocabulary choices contribute to specificity, abstraction and stylistic effectiveness (ACELA1561)
• Review and edit students’ own and others’ texts to improve clarity and control over content, organisation, paragraphing, sentence structure, vocabulary and audio/visual features (ACELY1747)

Year 10 English:

• Analyse and explain how text structures, language features and visual features of texts and the context in which texts are experienced may influence audience response (AELT1641)
• Evaluate the social, moral and ethical positions represented in texts (ACELT1812)
• Review, edit and refine students’ own and others’ texts for control of content, organisation, sentence structure, vocabulary, and/or visual features to achieve particular purposes and effects (ACELY1757)

Syllabus outcomes: EN5-1A, EN5-2A, EN5-3B, EN5-6C, EN5-7D

General capabilities: Literacy, Ethical Understanding, Personal and Social Capability, Intercultural Understanding

Cross-curriculum priority: none.

Relevant parts of Year 9 achievement standards: Students understand how to use a variety of language features to create different levels of meaning. They understand how interpretations can vary by comparing their responses to texts to the responses of others. In creating texts, students demonstrate how manipulating language features and images can create innovative texts.

Students create texts that respond to issues, interpreting and integrating ideas from other texts. They edit for effect, selecting vocabulary and grammar that contribute to the precision and persuasiveness of texts and using accurate spelling and punctuation.

Relevant parts of Year 10 achievement standards: Students show how the selection of language features can achieve precision and stylistic effect. They develop their own style by experimenting with language features, stylistic devices, text structures and images. Students create a wide range of texts to articulate complex ideas. They demonstrate understanding of grammar, vary vocabulary choices for impact, and accurately use spelling and punctuation when creating and editing texts

Unit of work: AFLW – NAPLAN Preparation.

Time required: 120 mins.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Low – Students will develop narratives based on their own ideas and inspirations.

• Student Worksheet – printed, one per student
• Device capable of presenting a video to the class
• Printed – one per student: Hero’s Journey Graph, Hero’s Journey Planning Template and Narrative Writing Self-Assessment Rubric

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

• Communication
• Critical thinking
• Cultural understanding
• Empathy
• Ethical understanding
• Social skills

This lesson has been developed in conjunction with the AFLW in celebration of the advancement of women in sport and the promotion of equal opportunity for all people in all facets of life.