Writing meaningful text: text features resources

Students choose the most appropriate topic sentence for a set of supporting sentences.

The assessment focus is on the features of an explanation. Students explore and write an explanation of the impacts the food industry could have on improving health.

Students write an invitation to a party.

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

Students write four questions about an animal they would like to research.

Using the whare tapawhā model of hauora (well-being), students explore the different dimensions of health, and write an explanation of how each can be cared for. The assessment focus is on the features of an explanation.

This task is about topic, supporting, and summary sentences in paragraphs of explanation.

This task is about identifying the topic sentence, supporting sentences, and summary sentence in a paragraph of description.

This task is about topic, supporting, and summary sentences in paragraphs of persuasion.

Students place photos of a canoe trip in order, then use them to write a narrative with a beginning, middle and end.

Students place photos in order, then use them to write a narrative with a beginning, middle and end.

Students place photos in order, then use them to write a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end.

For this NEMP task students write a letter to a bookshop requesting information about a book.

This task assesses students' ability to discriminate between the use of full stops, exclamation marks, and question marks by asking them to read a letter and insert the appropriate punctuation at the end of each sentence.

This task assesses students' understanding of the use of capital letters in titles, by asking them to read six book titles and put capital letters in the places they are needed.

This resource provides information on students’ ability to write a string of adjectives in the correct order.

This resource provides information on students’ ability to write a string of adjectives in the correct order.

This resource provides information on students’ ability to write a string of adjectives in the correct order.

Students identify the topic sentence, supporting sentences and summary sentence in a given paragraph. They then write their own paragraph, working to include these elements.

Students first do the science activity Throwing balloons 3 or Throwing balloons 4 where they predict, observe, and explain what will happen when a balloon containing another balloon filled with water is thrown. Then the students do this resource's writing task where they describe the balloon and what happens when it is thrown, and explain why they think it moved the way it did. Six annotated exemplars of student scripts (writing) are included under the "Working with Students" tab.

Students create simple and compound sentences to go with given photos. The focus is on combining sentences, using simple conjunctions. A peer sharing task completes the resource.

For this NEMP task students write a thank you letter to the Playground Trust. The letter is assessed on letter conventions, content, and language.

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.

For this NEMP task students read a poem about 'Me' and then write a poem about their own 'special self'.

A model of combining two short sentences is given. Students create simple then compound sentences to go with some photos, using simple conjunctions to join sentences. A peer sharing task completes the resource.