English Writing Compositionusually ages 5–8

Writing Process Vocabulary

Know and use the vocabulary of the writing process — compose, plan, draft, revise, edit, proofread, genre, audience, purpose, narrative, recount, instruction, paragraph, sequence, and detail — and understand that these words describe distinct steps and decisions that all writers make, not just tasks to tick off

How to tell they’ve got it

Tick these off as you see them — no test required.

Use 'compose', 'revise', and 'edit' correctly when describing the stages of writing
Explain who the 'audience' is for a piece of writing and how that changes what they write
Describe the purpose of a piece of writing (to persuade, inform, entertain, or instruct) and match their language to it

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Try this together

If you asked your child to explain what they're doing when they write a story at school, could they walk you through each step using words like 'plan', 'draft', and 'revise' — showing they understand it's a process, not just one sitting?

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Writing Process Vocabularythis skill · ages 5–8

Unlocks

Saying Sentences Before Writing Themages 5–6Oral composition requires vocabulary like 'compose', 'sentence', and 'sequence' to participate meaningfully in the exercise

Simple Stories with Beginning and Endingages 5–7Writing simple narratives requires 'narrative', 'sequence', 'beginning', 'middle', 'ending' as shared vocabulary

Writing opinionsages 5–7Opinion writing requires knowing the genre term 'opinion' and understanding audience and purpose

Writing to informages 5–7Informative writing requires knowing 'genre', 'audience', 'purpose', and 'detail' as concepts

Building Writing Staminaages 6–7Writing for different purposes requires the vocabulary of purpose, genre, recount, and instruction

Planning Ideas Before Writingages 6–10Planning before writing requires 'plan', 'draft', 'compose', 'sequence', and 'key words' as working vocabulary

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Curriculum alignment

Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).

Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

AC9E1LY06medium confidenceYear 1 · Literacy

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-syllable words

AC9E3LY06medium confidenceYear 3 · Literacy

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 phonetically regular words

AC9E3LY07medium confidenceYear 3 · Literacy

plan, create, rehearse and deliver short oral and/or multimodal presentations to inform, express opinions or tell stories, using a clear structure, details to elaborate ideas, topic-specific and precise vocabulary, visual features, and appropriate tone, pace, pitch and volume

NSW syllabus codes & stages only

EN1-CWT-01high confidenceEnglish K-10 · Stage 1

EN2-CWT-01high confidenceEnglish K-10 · Stage 2

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2E4LE04medium confidenceEnglish · Level 4 · Literature strand

VC2E1LA03medium confidenceEnglish · Level 1 · Language strand

VC2E3LY11medium confidenceEnglish · Level 3 · Literacy strand

These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.

Nearby on the map

Responding to Writing Feedbackages 5–7 Saying Sentences Before Writing Themages 5–6 Shared Research Projectsages 5–9 Sharing and Publishing Your Writingages 5–11

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