Years 3–6: Make It! Informative Literacy Challenge Cards
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Make It! Literacy Challenges | Informative Edition | Years 3–6
Want informative writing tasks your students actually get excited about?
Make It! Literacy Challenges: Informative Edition is a set of 10 hands-on informative writing challenges for Years 3–6. Each card is a complete writing task. Students read a short text, follow five clear steps and finish with something they’ve made themselves. Each challenge practises one type or feature of informative writing, from information reports and procedures to explanations and news reports. They fit easily into an informative writing unit, a fast finisher routine or a literacy rotation, and each one takes a single lesson.
Read It → Make It → Expert Challenge
Students report on the great escape of the Room 12 axolotl, and build a fact file on an Australian animal. They write instructions for the ultimate cubby and explain the water cycle in a diagram. Other cards have them compare a shark with a saltwater crocodile, label a mystery object for a museum, and present tonight’s weather forecast to the class.
What’s Included?
- 10 printable Make It! challenge cards
- Google Slides with one slide per card, ready to display
- Teacher guide with tips on getting ready and using the cards
- Skills overview showing the focus and end product for every card
- NSW and Australian Curriculum links
- An Expert Challenge on every card to extend early finishers
The 10 Challenges
- Creature Feature: a fact file poster on an Australian animal
- How to Build a Cubby: step-by-step instructions with a labelled diagram
- How Does It Work?: a cycle diagram that explains the water cycle
- Mystery Object: a museum display label for an object from the past
- Fact or Fiction?: a lift-the-flap true or false fact sheet
- Escape from Room 12: a front-page news report on the great escape
- Welcome to Our School: a guide map for a new student
- Shark vs Crocodile: a Venn diagram and a comparison paragraph
- Today’s Forecast: a TV weather report script to present
- Ask the Expert: a folded mini book on a topic you know well
Why Make It! Literacy Challenges?
- Students write every day with a clear purpose and something real to show for it
- Covers a range of informative text types in one pack
- Each card has five numbered steps, so students can work on their own
- Every challenge practises a specific skill using syllabus terminology
- Students only need paper, pencils, colours and scissors
- Works for whole-class lessons, small groups, fast finishers or relief days
Looking for more? Pair with the Narrative and Persuasive Editions for a full year of hands-on writing.
Resource Details
- Text Type: Informative
- Focus: Information reports, procedures, explanations, news reports, comparisons
- Stage: Stage 2 and Stage 3 (Years 3–6)
- Length: 10 challenge cards plus matching Google Slides
- Time: One lesson per challenge
- Curriculum: NSW English K–10 (CWT-02, CWT-01, VOCAB-01, OLC-01) and Australian Curriculum v9
Read it. Write it. Make it!
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Yes. Every Hello Primary resource is written by an Australian primary teacher and aligned to the NSW English K–10 Syllabus and the Australian Curriculum v9.0. The curriculum links for this resource are included in the download.
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