Strand · what is that?
Writing
The building blocks are sorted by grade band. What a building block builds on is on its own page.
0 of 61 building blocks practised
Covered
Gap
Grade 5/6
- Writing purpose and audience (gap, no app yet)
- Writing plan (gap, no app yet)
- Revising texts (gap, no app yet)
- Word processing (gap, no app yet)
- Structure of a narrative (gap, no app yet)
- Writing suspenseful stories (gap, no app yet)
- Story writing from prompts (gap, no app yet)
- Retelling a story (gap, no app yet)
- Writing from a model text (gap, no app yet)
- Writing poems (gap, no app yet)
- Describing an object (gap, no app yet)
- Describing a person (gap, no app yet)
- Giving directions (gap, no app yet)
- Describing a process (gap, no app yet)
- Factual report (gap, no app yet)
- Written statement of opinion (gap, no app yet)
- Syllables and word parts (gap, no app yet)
- Spelling by extending and deriving (gap, no app yet)
- Spelling long vowels (gap, no app yet)
- Spelling short vowels (gap, no app yet)
- S sounds: s, ss, ß (gap, no app yet)
- Das or dass (gap, no app yet)
- Capitalisation (gap, no app yet)
- Hyphenation at line breaks (gap, no app yet)
- Using a dictionary (gap, no app yet)
- Alphabetical order and base forms (gap, no app yet)
- Analysing spelling mistakes (gap, no app yet)
- End punctuation (gap, no app yet)
- Punctuating direct speech (gap, no app yet)
- Commas in lists (gap, no app yet)
- Commas between clauses (gap, no app yet)
Grade 7/8
- Descriptive writing of moods (gap, no app yet)
- Describing a picture (gap, no app yet)
- Informative text from sources (gap, no app yet)
- Introductory summary sentence (gap, no app yet)
- Plot summary (gap, no app yet)
- Structure of an argument (gap, no app yet)
- Ordering arguments (gap, no app yet)
- Formal letters and emails (gap, no app yet)
- Letter to the editor (gap, no app yet)
- Paraphrasing (gap, no app yet)
- Capitalising nominalisations (gap, no app yet)
- Compound and separate spelling (gap, no app yet)
- Spelling loanwords (gap, no app yet)
- Commas with appositives (gap, no app yet)
- Commas with infinitive and participle groups (gap, no app yet)
Grade 9/10
- Summarising non-fiction texts (gap, no app yet)
- Writing minutes (gap, no app yet)
- Excerpting (gap, no app yet)
- Linear argumentative essay (gap, no app yet)
- Creating an outline (gap, no app yet)
- Pro and con essay (gap, no app yet)
- Source-based argumentative writing (gap, no app yet)
- Writing a commentary (gap, no app yet)
- Book and film review (gap, no app yet)
- Tabular CV (gap, no app yet)
- Application letter (gap, no app yet)
- Quoting (gap, no app yet)
- Citing sources (gap, no app yet)
- Writing a literary interpretation (gap, no app yet)
- Non-fiction text analysis (gap, no app yet)
Apps in this strand
Build an app for this strand
An app stays in one strand. It starts with one building block and grows along the learning path with each new version, for example from grade 5 to 10.