Inspiring Writing with Slime

Inspiring Writing is a set of resources to support teachers and students in the teaching and learning of primary-school writing skills. These may be used on a whole-class, small group or individual basis as part of a regular school program, as part of a homework program, and/or to facilitate more effective differentiated writing instruction for students who need additional support or extension.

This resource supports the development of writing persuasive texts and informative texts within the Australian curriculum framework. It uses a high-interest theme (‘slime’) to motivate and engage learners in the writing process.

This resource best supports CONSOLIDATING writers (~NSW S2). Within the Inspiring Writing framework, CONSOLIDATING writers  have a sound foundation in the craft of writing and are working to consolidate this. They are developing their knowledge and use of text and language structures and features including first and third person voice, modality; paragraph structure and the sequencing of details; text structures to support writing for different purposes; rhetorical devices, imagery and humour; consistent tense, noun-pronoun reference and subject-verb agreement; descriptive phrases and clauses; article selection; variation in sentence structure and length; and complex punctuation including for quoted and reported speech. Inspiring Writing resources to support these students have a blue theme.

Note: a small number of scaffolds in this resource also appear in other Inspiring Writing products.