Free Writing Lessons & Tips
Help your child build stronger writing skills with free lessons, prompts, checklists and practical writing tips. These resources are designed for Australian students preparing for NAPLAN-style writing, OC exam preparation, selective school exam preparation, and classroom writing.
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NAPLAN Writing
Practise persuasive and narrative writing with clear structures, examples and revision tips.
OC Writing Preparation
Build clear ideas, strong vocabulary and confident sentence control for OC-style writing tasks.
Selective School Writing
Practise creative, persuasive and exam-style writing skills for selective school preparation.
Persuasive Writing
Learn how to write stronger opinions, arguments, examples and conclusions.
Narrative Writing
Improve character, setting, tension, conflict, description and endings.
Vocabulary
Use stronger words naturally without sounding forced.
Sentence Structure
Improve sentence variety, fluency, punctuation and expression.
Parent Guides
Simple advice to help parents support writing practice at home.
Free writing lessons
NAPLAN Persuasive Writing Tips
Planning, arguments, examples, vocabulary and conclusions.
Read lesson →NarrativeNarrative Writing Tips for Primary Students
Character, setting, tension, conflict, description and endings.
Read lesson →OCOC Writing Preparation Tips
Planning, vocabulary, sentence control and creative writing practice.
Read lesson →SelectiveSelective School Writing Preparation Tips
Planning, originality, vocabulary, structure and timed writing.
Read lesson →VocabularyHigh-Scoring Words for Student Writing
Use stronger vocabulary naturally in persuasive and narrative writing.
Read lesson →ChecklistYear 5 Writing Checklist
A free checklist covering ideas, structure, vocabulary and editing.
Read lesson →PromptsWriting Prompts for Primary Students
60+ persuasive, narrative, OC-style and selective-style writing prompts.
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