Task sheet example

Task sheet example:




Name:                                                                           Class:

Teacher:

First Draft Due: 4^th May 2012     Final Copy Due: 25^th May 2012              Mode: Written                    Genre: Narrative

Conditions:

·         Individual

·         5 weeks

·         7 lessons in class and in own time

·         Teacher input only through draft feedback

·         Access to ICT – Microsoft Office Word

·         More than 500 words

Your Role

You are now a publishing author! Well you will be. For now, you are an author. The publishing part comes in at the end when you print your narrative.

Your Task

You are to write a narrative that focuses on Relationships and Problems in Stories. As a class, we will look at what this topic means, but mainly, you are going to write a narrative that has characters in it and the characters have a problem and then resolve/work out that problem.

Your Audience

Your audience is your peers (Year 5’s, 10-12 year olds). So make sure your narrative is interesting to you and your friends!

Assessable Elements

·         Characters each have a different opinion in your narrative.

Criteria Element: Recognise that ideas in novels/stories can be written from different viewpoints, leading to different interpretations and responses.

·         Follow the structure of a narrative.

Criteria Element: Understand how texts vary in purpose, structure and topic as well as the degree of formality

·         Use adjectives when describing characters!

Criteria Element: Understands how noun and adjective groups provide a fuller description of characters

·         Write a creative and imaginative narrative using real life and fantasy ideas.

Criteria Element: Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced

·         Plan your narrative before you start! Make your narrative appealing to your peers.

Criteria Element: 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

·         Use Microsoft Word to publish your narrative!

Criteria Element: Use a range of software including word processing programs with fluency to construct, edit and publish written text, and select, edit and place visual, print and audio elements.