Writing meaningful text: text features resources

Students design an advertisement to sell a bike.

Students use the ideas from a brainstorm to write six sentences about caring for pets.

This focus of this resource is punctuating direct speech. Students drag speech marks, commas, and full stops into place to show where direct speech begins and ends. The resource ends with a collaborative writing activity. Students work with a partner to create and punctuate a conversation based on the characters in a photograph.

This task assesses students' ability to provide examples of different parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb) in the context of writing two four-word alliteration poems.

Students complete sentences by adding a given noun or pronoun and using an apostrophe as required.

Students identify phrases within sentences which provide additional information, and enclose these phrases using commas.

Students write a set of instructions after reading a poem about cooking. Students self-assess their writing before conferencing with the teacher to set their next learning steps.

Students identify and describe a local place they like to visit within a written report.

Students read a story about rabbits and mark where the paragraph breaks should occur. The assessment focus is on organisation.

The assessment focus is punctuation with students inserting commas and speech marks into text.

Students read an essay on school uniforms then mark where the paragraph breaks should occur. The assessment focus is on organisation.

Students add commas to enclose words or phrases within sentences to show where extra information has been added.

Students research and take notes in preparation for writing a biography of a famous New Zealander. Supports for this process and formative assessment points are given.

Students identify and insert the missing capital letters for proper nouns in a letter.

This focus of this resource is punctuating direct speech. Students drag speech marks into place to show where direct speech begins and ends. The resource ends with a collaborative writing activity. Students work with a partner to create and punctuate a conversation based on the characters in a photograph.

A letter without capitals is the context of this punctuation assessment. Students insert capitals for a number of different purposes.

Students read a short narrative recount and indicate each place in which a paragraph break is needed.

This task assesses students' understanding of the conventions surrounding the use of apostrophes to indicate ownership. Students are required to read a short story and insert apostrophes in the places they are needed.

Students are asked to read a short story and to insert the commas and speech marks required to indicate the direct speech in the story.

The main focus of this task is punctuation. Students will read Janine's email to her new pen pal and insert eight question marks in the correct places.