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5 Procedural Writing Prompts

Updated: 15 Apr 2024

Use this set of 5 procedural writing prompts to assess your students’ procedural writing skills.

Editable: Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 5 Pages
Years: 1 - 4

Curriculum

ACELY1661

Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and diagramsElaborationsref...
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Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose...
ACELY1682

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print,and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purposeElaborationsusing pri...
ACELY1694

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AC9E1LY06

Create and re-read to edit short written and/or multimodal texts to report on a topic, express an opinion or recount a real or imagined event, using grammatically correct simple sentences, some topic-specific vocabulary, sentence boundary punctuation and correct spelling of some one- and two-syllab
AC9E2LY06

Create and edit short imaginative, informative and persuasive written and/or multimodal texts for familiar audiences, using text structure appropriate to purpose, simple and compound sentences, noun groups and verb groups, topic- specific vocabulary, simple punctuation and common 2-syllable words
AC9E3LY06

Plan, create, edit and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive written and multimodal texts, using visual features, appropriate form and layout, with ideas grouped in simple paragraphs, mostly correct tense, topic- specific vocabulary and correct spelling of most high-frequency and phonetic
AC9E4LY06

Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, using visual features, relevant linked ideas, complex sentences, appropriate tense, synonyms and antonyms, correct spelling of multisyllabic words and simple punctuation

teaching resource

5 Procedural Writing Prompts

Updated: 15 Apr 2024

Use this set of 5 procedural writing prompts to assess your students’ procedural writing skills.

Editable: Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 5 Pages
Years: 1 - 4

Use this set of 5 procedural writing prompts to assess your students’ procedural writing skills.

Procedural Writing Prompts for Lower Primary

Have you been studying procedural writing with your students this term? Are you ready to see how well your students can write a procedural text on a topic of their choice? If so, Teach Starter’s procedural writing prompts could be exactly the resource you are looking for!

This resource has been designed as an assessment tool that can be used at the end of your procedural writing unit. Your students should be very familiar with the structure and language features of procedural writing before engaging with this resource.

Each writing prompt in this set focuses on a different topic. The five topics included are:

How to Make…
How to Play…
How to Plan…
How to Get Ready for…
How to Build a…

Students are encouraged to come up with their own ideas based on the broad topics above. For example, a student might choose the “How to Play…” prompt and then write a procedural text about how to play hide and seek. Another might choose the same prompt, but write a procedural text about how to play handball.

Teachers may wish to use one prompt for all students, or alternatively, students could choose whichever prompt they prefer.

Suggested Use for These Procedural Writing Prompts

You might like to follow the process below when using these procedural writing prompts with your class:

Distribute the Prompt – Distribute the chosen prompt to your students. Read through it as a class and answer any questions about the upcoming task.
Planning Time – Provide students with time to plan their piece of writing. Ten minutes should be sufficient.
Writing Time – Provide students with an uninterrupted period of sustained writing time to complete their procedural texts.
Editing Time – Provide at least five minutes at the end of the writing period for students to read over and make adjustments to their writing.

Download to Access These Procedural Writing Prompts

This resource downloads as a full-colour PDF, a black-and-white PDF and an editable Google Slides file containing both the full-colour and black-and-white versions. Click on the Download button to access your preferred version.

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Curriculum

ACELY1661

Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and diagramsElaborationsref...
ACELY1671

Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose...
ACELY1682

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print,and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purposeElaborationsusing pri...
ACELY1694

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language featuresElaborationsusing re...

AC9E1LY06

Create and re-read to edit short written and/or multimodal texts to report on a topic, express an opinion or recount a real or imagined event, using grammatically correct simple sentences, some topic-specific vocabulary, sentence boundary punctuation and correct spelling of some one- and two-syllab
AC9E2LY06

Create and edit short imaginative, informative and persuasive written and/or multimodal texts for familiar audiences, using text structure appropriate to purpose, simple and compound sentences, noun groups and verb groups, topic- specific vocabulary, simple punctuation and common 2-syllable words
AC9E3LY06

Plan, create, edit and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive written and multimodal texts, using visual features, appropriate form and layout, with ideas grouped in simple paragraphs, mostly correct tense, topic- specific vocabulary and correct spelling of most high-frequency and phonetic
AC9E4LY06

Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, using visual features, relevant linked ideas, complex sentences, appropriate tense, synonyms and antonyms, correct spelling of multisyllabic words and simple punctuation

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