teaching resource

Build a Magical Story Interactive Activity

Updated: 03 Jul 2024

Use this “Build a Magical Story” narrative writing interactive activity to model the purpose, structural elements and language features of narrative texts.

Editable: PowerPoint, Google Slides
Pages: 1 Page
Years: 1 - 3

Curriculum

ACELA1447

Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable waysElaborationsdiscussing and comparing the purposes of familiar texts drawn from local contexts and interests (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)becoming f...
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...
ACELA1463

Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purposeElaborationsidentifying the topic and type of a text through its visual presentation, for example cover design, packa...
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...
ACELA1478

Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose and context (for example, tense and types of sentences)Elaborationsbecoming familiar with typical structural stages and language features of various t...
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...

AC9E1LA03

Explore how texts are organised according to their purpose, such as to recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain
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
AC9E2LA03

Identify how texts across the curriculum are organised differently and use language features depending on purposes
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
AC9E3LA03

Describe how texts across the curriculum use different language features and structures relevant to their purpose
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

teaching resource

Build a Magical Story Interactive Activity

Updated: 03 Jul 2024

Use this “Build a Magical Story” narrative writing interactive activity to model the purpose, structural elements and language features of narrative texts.

Editable: PowerPoint, Google Slides
Pages: 1 Page
Years: 1 - 3

Use this “Build a Magical Story” narrative writing interactive activity to model the purpose, structural elements and language features of narrative texts.

Build a Magical Story During Book Week 2024

Book Week 2024 is all about celebrating the magic that a good story inspires. Help your students write a magical story of their own with this scaffolded digital writing activity perfect for use during Book Week 2024!

At the beginning of the resource, the students are introduced to the following scenario:

Welcome to the enchanted forest! The fairies here are searching for new mystical stories to read. Use your imagination and writing skills to build the most magical story!

This interactive procedural writing activity contains the following slides:

Story Title – Type six ideas for the title and choose the best one.
Brainstorm – Brainstorm six different ideas for the magical story.
Characters – Name and describe three characters in the story.
Setting – List a time period, a list of places and a description of each place that will feature in the story.
Plot – Create a problem, an attempt to solve the problem and a solution to the problem.
Events – Describe three main events that will take place within the story.
Draft – Create a draft of the story.
Final Copy – Create a final copy of the story.
Checklist – Check that the completed text contains all of the necessary features.

This interactive activity downloads as a Microsoft PowerPoint or a Google Slides file.

Reading Is Magic… And So Is Writing!

This resource makes a great whole-class modelled writing activity to use during Book Week.

Once your students have completed their magical story, why not have them share their work with another class, the school librarian, your school’s office staff or even the school principal? Your students will love reading their story to others and getting positive feedback on their work.

You could even have your students read their story at a school assembly or costume parade during Book Week!

Download to Write a Magical Story

Use the Download button to access your preferred version of this resource. Should you choose the Google Slides file, please note that you will be prompted to make a copy of it before saving it to your personal drive.

Please note that this resource functions in Edit mode only, not in Presentation mode.

This resource was created by Lindsay Phillips, a Teach Starter collaborator.

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Curriculum

ACELA1447

Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable waysElaborationsdiscussing and comparing the purposes of familiar texts drawn from local contexts and interests (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)becoming f...
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...
ACELA1463

Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purposeElaborationsidentifying the topic and type of a text through its visual presentation, for example cover design, packa...
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...
ACELA1478

Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose and context (for example, tense and types of sentences)Elaborationsbecoming familiar with typical structural stages and language features of various t...
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...

AC9E1LA03

Explore how texts are organised according to their purpose, such as to recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain
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
AC9E2LA03

Identify how texts across the curriculum are organised differently and use language features depending on purposes
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
AC9E3LA03

Describe how texts across the curriculum use different language features and structures relevant to their purpose
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

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