The creation of texts is heavily linked to the A3 strand. Throughout the process of creating texts, students apply transferable skills and digital media literacy, seek feedback from others, critically analyze their own texts, reflect on their use of techniques, tools, and technology, and consider how to improve as text creators. They develop the competencies and confidence to express ideas and communicate clearly and effectively using written language.

At this stage, writing serves as a powerful tool for children to express their thoughts and creativity, and uniqueness while developing essential skills such as organizing ideas, using proper grammar, and understanding a variety of text structures. By incorporating vocabulary development, sentence formation, coherence and the mechanics of writing through printing, a student’s ability to think critically and articulate their ideas becomes more refined and permanent.

In order to draft short texts, students need to know and understand that authors, depending on their purpose, audience and content, choose different structures and that many of these structures have predictable words and phrases to help guide the reader. Educators can begin to deconstruct these common structures and their associated signal words and phrases to aid students with the organization of their idea. Some of the most common structures are: description, cause and effect, problem and solution, compare and contrast, chronology/sequence.