Paragraph Development · B6 English Language

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B6.4.6.1.1

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify at least three different modes of writing (narrative, descriptive, and persuasive) from sample texts and state the purpose of each.
Identify the target audience for a given piece of writing by examining its language, content, and text features.
Match a writing purpose to an appropriate mode of writing (for example, persuading a friend to join a club calls for persuasive writing).
Rearrange jumbled paragraphs into a coherent piece of writing that follows a logical order.
Explain, in their own words, why the choice of mode, purpose, and audience matters before beginning to write.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Writing (Strand 4)
Sub-strand: Paragraph Development (4.6)
Content standard: B6.4.6.1 - Develop, organise and express ideas cohesively in writing and representing for a variety of purposes, audience, and contexts
Indicator: B6.4.6.1.1 - Choose appropriate ways and modes of writing for a variety of purposes, audience, and contexts, and organise facts, ideas and/or points of view in a way appropriate to the mode of delivery, using appropriate text features
Suggested placement: Term 3, Week 2 (Week 26 of the year)
Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.
Curriculum reference: English Language Curriculum (Basic 4-6), 2019, p. 197
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

- Work with learners to select sample texts from a variety of models of writing from learners' readers and teacher's resources e.g. newspapers, magazines etc. You may take learners to the library for this exercise.
Examples of modes of writing. i. Process ii. Narrative iii. Descriptive iv. Persuasive v. Argumentative vi. Letter
Note: Present one mode of writing at a time and at different times (in different lessons).
- Put learners into small groups and assign each group a mode of writing.
- Have learners study the sample text.
- Guide them through appropriate questions to identify the: i. Mode of writing/types of essay ii. Purpose iii. Audience
- Jumble the paragraphs and have learners re-arrange the paragraphs into a coherent piece. iv. Encourage learners to use search engines to search for the different modes of writing they have studied.