1. TSA Writing Skills (Primary 3)

2. Pre-writing

3. Read the question
Ben is having his summer holiday. He is writing about it.
You are Ben. Look at the pictures and write story about your summer holiday in about
30 words. You may use the words in the boxes to help you.
Situation
What to write
Number of words
Underline the keywords

4. Getting ideas (1) Pictures
workbooks
cartoons ?
park

5. From the pictures, find out:
Where is he?
What is he doing?
Does he look happy or sad?
Is he with someone or alone?

6. Getting ideas (2) Mind map
Think about different ideas
Use the mind map
Think of answers to the questions on the mind map

7. (2) Mind map What did you do? Did you enjoy your holiday? My summer
What did you see?
How did you feel?
Where did you go?
Who spend the holiday with you?

8. Getting ideas (3) Question words
Use ‘wh-’ words and ‘how’ question words to get ideas of different areas, e.g.
What: the thing or action
When: the time
Where: the place
Who: the people
Why: the reason …
How: the way something happens
How many: the number of something
How much: the price …

9. (3) Question words When? Where? What (do you do)? Who?
How (do you feel)?
Every day, in the afternoon
At home, in the park
Doing workbooks, watching TV, going to the park …
Me, Daisy
happy

10. Writing

11. (1) Making sentences Write each sentence with a clear structure.
In the summer holiday, I do summer workbooks and watch TV at home every day. I watch funny cartoons. I go to the park with Daisy when the weather is good. In the afternoon, I play football. I am happy.
I play football.
verb
subject
object
Write each sentence with a clear structure.

12. Making sentences: Punctuations
In the summer holiday, I do summer workbooks and watch TV at home every day.
A clear sentence structure with right punctuations:
Use a capital letter for the first word of a sentence.
Use a capital letter for the pronoun ‘I’.
Use a full stop ( . ) to mark the end of a sentence.
Use a comma ( , ) to separate words in a sentence.
Note the use of capital letters, full stops and commas.

13. (2) Supporting details
In the summer holiday, I do summer workbooks and watch TV at home every day. I watch funny cartoons. I go to the park with Daisy when the weather is good. In the afternoon, I play football. I am happy.
1. Write more details.

14. These sentences show when ‘I’ do these activities.
(2) Supporting details
In the summer holiday, I do summer workbooks and watch TV at home every day. I watch funny cartoons. I go to the park with Daisy when the weather is good. In the afternoon, I play football. I am happy.
These sentences show when ‘I’ do these activities.
2. Write about time.

15. (2) Supporting details
In the summer holiday, I do summer workbooks and watch TV at home every day. I watch funny cartoons. I go to the park with Daisy when the weather is good. In the afternoon, I play football. I am happy.
The writer uses these adjectives to describe cartoons, weather and how the writer feels.
3. Use more adjectives.

16. These words help us join our ideas together.
(3) Linking ideas
In the summer holiday, I do summer workbooks and watch TV at home every day. I watch funny cartoons. I go to the park with Daisy when the weather is good. In the afternoon, I play football. I am happy.
These words help us join our ideas together.
Use some words to link up ideas.

17. Formats

18. (1) Story Beginning introduce the setting and the characters
Development
What happens at first?
Next?
Ending
How it ends? What do you think and feel?

19. (2) Letter
Date
Recipient
Opening
Main body
Ending
Closing
Sender

20. (3)
Recipient
Opening
Main body
Ending
Closing
Sender

21. (4) Diary Entry
Date
Weather
What happened
How you feel

22. Post-writing

23. Read Again Take 5 minutes to read your writing again
Check the language (grammar)
- tenses
- spelling
Check the format (especially letters)
Check the number of words (about 30 words)

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