Instructional Writing - Magical Mazes

We have started looking at instructional writing and being able to give our reader simple instructions to correctly carry out a set of tasks. We have decided to create a Magical Maze to do this. Our mission to to safely guide our character / reader through our magical maze. Easy? Well there are many obstacles and hazards we need to be aware of.

Last week, we planned collaboratively in groups a list of hazards / obstacles, warnings and action verbs that will help us create our maze.

Today's challenge was to create our very own Magical Maze. The children absolutely loved this task and it was a pleasure to listen to their conversations about the different hazards they had decided to include.










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