Writing meaningful text: vocabulary knowledge resources

Students identify common spelling errors and write the identified errors correctly. Students also identify lines of text without errors.

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 explain what an adjective is and identify adjectives in some sentences.

This task assesses student understanding of how the form of a word affects the way it is used, i.e., whether a word is used as a noun or a verb.

Students are given an example of ordering adjectives in an advertisement. They use this example to develop a list of adjectives that they order as they create their own advertisement .

Students make choices about which adjectives to use to create a poem about a school of fish. A video clip provides the stimulus for this task.

Students use a video clip as the stimulus for completing a poem. Scaffolds are provided for this process.

Students create a vignette with a focus on writing pieces that are brief, descriptive, and set in one point in time. They should not be concerned with plot. As the emphasis is on quality rather than quantity, students need to show a controlled and elegant skill in writing and use figurative language to 'show' rather than 'tell'.

This resource assesses grammar knowledge. Students identify prepositions used in twelve sentences.

This resource assesses grammar knowledge. Students complete a table giving definitions and examples of proper, common, collective, and abstract nouns.

This is a grammar knowledge resource where students match nine parts of speech and their definitions.

This resource assesses students' ability to identify and correct common spelling errors taken from the essential word lists 4, 6, and 7.