expressive writing
 : Birthday Story
Approach: Station
732k
Resources: 4 picture pages (in the order shown at right), stapler.

Questions / instructions:
There are 4 pictures that tell a story.
Imagine that you are writing a story book.

  1. Put the pictures into an order that tells a story.
  2. Put a page number on each picture to show the order.
  3. Write under each picture to tell the story.
  4. When you have finished, put the pages in order and staple them together.
1  2  3  4
  % responses
y4

Text related to picture:

always
sometimes
rarely/never

78
19
3

Logical flow:

excellent
very good
good
poor

39
26
25
10

Plot development:

excellent
very good
good
poor

29
35
23
13

Interest: eg humour, tragedy, moral

very high
quite high
some
little or none

23
36
26
15

Overall score:

9–11
6–8
3–5
0–2

38
30
21
11

Commentary:
About two thirds of year 4 students handled this story-telling task quite well, with 38 percent handling it very well. The parallel task for year 8 students was A Tale of Two Donkeys.



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