Lesson 10: Rough draft

Duration of lesson: 60 minutes

Lesson objective: For students continue writing their drafts. 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(ACELY1714)
Classroom organisation: Individual work
Resources: Paper and pencils, Tompkins, G. (2012). Literacy for the 21st century: a balanced
approach. China: Pearson Australia. Lesson adapted from http://www.project-text.eu/steps-
to-write-a-short-story/
Learning experiences:
1. Before continuing on with planning explain to children that they will engage in an activity
titled Making- words taken from Tompkins (p. 411, 2012).
2. Write the High altitude sickness Explain to students their task is now to see who can
create the most number of words by rearranging the letters from this term
3. This activity enables students to practise what they know about sound and symbol
correspondences and spelling patterns
4. After 15 minutes, go through the words that the students were able to come up with.
5. Encourage students to think outside the box and use a thesaurus and dictionary to add
deeper meaning to their stories
6. Explain that once students have completed their prewriting section theyll start their rough
draft. This is when you put everything you wrote together and get into order. Your rough
draft will be your finished story with changes only needing to be done to possible plot
wholes and grammar.
7. At the end of the lesson prompt children to move their I.D further up the mountain