Years 3–6: Make It! Narrative Literacy Challenge Cards
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Make It! Literacy Challenges | Narrative Edition | Years 3–6
Looking for narrative writing tasks that get students excited to write, without hours of prep?
Make It! Literacy Challenges: Narrative Edition is a set of 10 hands-on writing challenges for Years 3–6. Each card is a complete writing task. Students read a short story-starter, follow five clear steps and finish with something they’ve made themselves. Each challenge practises one part of narrative writing, such as setting, character, plot or point of view. They fit easily into a narrative unit, a fast finisher routine or a literacy rotation, and each one takes a single lesson.
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Students open a door that wasn’t there and describe the hidden world behind it. They build a case file for a brand-new character and draw a comic that ends on a cliffhanger. They write the Big Bad Wolf’s side of the story in his own diary. Other cards send them on a quest across an illustrated map, shrink them down to bug size for a magnifying-glass close-up, or hand them a ticket to another time and ask what happens when they arrive.
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
- The Door That Wasn’t There: a fold-open door with a hidden setting
- Character Case File: a character case file
- Cliffhanger Comic: a cliffhanger comic strip
- Message in a Bottle: a message in a bottle
- Quest Map: an illustrated quest map
- Judge a Book by Its Cover: a book cover and blurb
- Pick a Path: a fold-out story with two endings
- Big Bad Diary: a diary page from the Big Bad Wolf
- Tiny World: a magnifying-glass close-up
- Time Travel Ticket: a time travel ticket and arrival scene
Why Make It! Literacy Challenges?
- Students write every day with a clear purpose and something real to show for it
- Each card has five numbered steps, so students can work on their own
- Every challenge practises a specific narrative skill using syllabus terminology
- Students only need paper, pencils, colours and scissors
- Works for whole-class lessons, small groups, fast finishers or relief days
- Finished pieces make a ready-made story gallery for your classroom
Looking for more? Pair with Make It! Literacy Challenges: Persuasive Edition for a full term of hands-on writing, or Make It! Literacy Challenges: Christmas Edition for the end of the year.
Resource Details
- Text Type: Narrative (imaginative)
- Focus: Setting, character, plot, point of view, figurative language
- 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-01, VOCAB-01, UARL-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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