Writing

Writing: Planning I find using the plan man for my planning helps me because I put more detail into it. The plan man has a start, middle and end. The start contains charracters,setting, maine idea etc. The middle and end all have 3 paragraphs. Each paragraph has a main idea, then 3 sub ideas coming off it which give the story more detail. This is what the plan man looks like:

Narratives:

Holiday story I find narratives easy if I follow a good plan. The first narrative we wrote this year was the holiday story. My holiday story wasn’t very detailed because we didn’t use the plan man then. Our holiday stories were meant to be about a page long and I found that hard because we couldn’t put as much detail into them.

Andy story When the teachers first introduced the plan man technique, we wrote an Andy Griffiths inspired home adventure story. Mine was about sucking ants out of an ants nest. This story was fun to write because some of our home adventures were really funny like an Andy Griffiths story. My Andy story was pretty detailed and here it is:

Portal story The latest narrative we’ve written is our portal stories. My portal story was a bit different to my other stories because it wasn’t necessarily funny. The plan I used was the plan man and it made my story detailed and interesting. This is my Portal story:



Letter Writing: Since the start of the year we’ve written a fiction letter and a letter to a company as a complaint, idea or thank you. Writing the letters was pretty easy because Mr. Graham gave us a plan of what sorts of things go in each paragraph.

Soldier Letter As an ANZAC day activity we wrote soldier letters. Our soldier letters had to be a soldier or a nurse from WWI writing to family back home. I chose to be a soldier because after we watched Gallipoli, I knew more about what soldier’s went through. This is my soldier letter:



Formal Letter: My formal letter was a complaint to McDonalds. I found it pretty easy and funny to think what they could send back. We used a pre made plan that Mr. Graham gave us.