Grade 3 · English Language Arts · Unit 9 of 18
Plan Your Writing
Topics, audience, purpose, planning tools and kinds of writing.
What your child practises
Practises choosing a topic from experience, thinking about audience and purpose, using planning tools such as webs and organizers, and telling narrative, informational, descriptive and persuasive writing apart.
Prince Edward Island Curriculum curriculum outcome: 9.2; 10.1 · choosing a topic, purpose and audience and planning writing before drafting
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Writing a story about a lost mitten is…
- narrative writing
- a recipe
- informational writing
narrative writing
Hint: A narrative tells a story.
Question 2
A poster that tells people to walk to school uses…
- a diary
- persuasive writing
- a poem only
persuasive writing
Hint: It urges people to act.
Question 3
Brainstorming means…
- choosing the last idea
- thinking of lots of ideas quickly
- writing a final copy
thinking of lots of ideas quickly
Hint: Brainstorming gets ideas flowing.
Question 4
The purpose of writing is…
- the length of a word
- the colour of the paper
- the reason you are writing
the reason you are writing
Hint: Purpose may be to tell, explain, describe or persuade.
Question 5
Writing about how a puppy looks, sounds and feels is…
- a list of rules
- persuasive writing
- descriptive writing
descriptive writing
Hint: Description paints a picture with words.
Question 6
Writing an invitation to a birthday needs the date, time and…
- place
- moon colour
- pet name
place
Hint: Invitations give key information.