English Writing Compositionusually ages 5–7

Writing to inform

Compose informative or explanatory texts using drawing, dictating, or writing that name a topic and supply some information about it

How to tell they’ve got it

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Write or dictate two or three facts about a familiar topic
Label diagrams or drawings with informative details
Name a topic and provide relevant details about it

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Try this together

Can your child write a few sentences explaining something they know about — like how butterflies grow or how to make a sandwich — naming the topic and sharing some facts?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on

Saying Sentences Before Writing Themages 5–6Oral rehearsal precedes informative writing

Writing Process Vocabularyages 5–8Informative writing requires knowing 'genre', 'audience', 'purpose', and 'detail' as concepts

Writing to informthis skill · ages 5–7

Unlocks

Basic Informational Writingages 6–11Structured informative writing with facts/definitions builds on simple informative writing

Building Writing Staminaages 6–7Informative writing skills support writing for different purposes

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

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

AC9EFLY01medium confidenceFoundation · Literacy

identify some familiar texts, such as stories and informative texts, and their purpose

AC9E1LA03medium confidenceYear 1 · Language

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

NSW syllabus codes & stages only

EN2-CWT-02medium confidenceEnglish K-10 · Stage 2

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

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2E2LY08medium confidenceEnglish · Level 2 · Literacy strand

VC2EFLY13medium confidenceEnglish · Foundation · Literacy strand

VC2EFLY10medium confidenceEnglish · Foundation · 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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