2016

CANNONVALE STATE SCHOOL CURRICULUM

DAILY WRITING WARM UP SCOPE & SEQUENCE
These challenge words are a guide and resource only. Teachers are able to
replace them with words suitable to the ability level of their students but the
words must remain aspirational. When differentiating, please be aware of
topics and challenge words for year levels above and below your own. (These
can be accessed in the curriculum found at Core Data: Curriculum: 2016: Whole School
Documents: All Supporting Documents: English: Every Day Writing Warm Up)

The order of topics within a term may also be adjusted to suit. Collaboration
with cohort teachers is preferable if this is to take place.

YEAR 6
TERM 1 MY PLACE IN THE WORLD

YEAR 6 EVERYDAY WRITING WARM UP

Week
2

Topic /Resource
About Me

3
4
5

Leadership
Friendships
Treating Others well

6
7
8
9
10

Electricity
Electricity
Narratives
The world and maps
The world and maps

TERM 1

Challenge words
Characteristically, honourable, anatomically, preference,
leisure pursuit
Ingenuity, fortitude, exemplary, articulate, gracious
Compatible, allegiance, confidante, empathy, nurture
Productive, self-sacrifice, interpersonal skills, inseparable,
interaction
Installation, insulation, circuitry, generate, luminous
Conductor, amplitude, frequency, impede, duration
Intrigue, dexterous, entwined, craft, authorship
Cartographic, demographic, altitude, populous, azimuth
Geographical, meridian, navigational, continental, universal

TERM 2 FROM LITTLE THINGS BIG THINGS GROW!

YEAR 6 EVERYDAY WRITING WARM UP

Week
2

Topic /Resource
Our first people

3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Our first people

Persuasion
Persuasion
Micro-organisms
Micro-organisms
Federation
Federation
Holidays

TERM 2

Challenge words
Racial discrimination, native title, stolen generation,
indigeneity, assimilation
Traumatic, dialect, abhorrent, injustice, resilience
Arguably, cohesive, undoubtedly, unquestionably, beseech
Accordingly, consequently, guaranteed, entreat, scandalous
Viral, interdependence, microbe, antibiotic, minute
Beneficial, decomposition, unicellular, bacteria, probiotic
Colonisation, democratic, chronology, unify, contribution
Referendum, constitutional, election, equality, parliament
Jaunt, scenic, souvenir, nostalgia, itinerary

TERM 3 OH THE PLACES YOU GO WHEN YOU READ!

YEAR 6 EVERYDAY WRITING WARM UP

Week
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

Topic /Resource
Leadership
Weather & earthquakes
Weather & earthquakes
Migration
Migration
Keeping safe
Keeping safe

Emotions

10

Revision

TERM 3

Challenge words
Virtuous, industrious, perceptive, tenacious, tolerant
Shattering, devastation, tectonic plates, tragic, shockwaves
Casualty, recovery, evacuation, catastrophic, enormity
Uncertainty, persecution, deportation, barriers, protection
Harrowing, negotiation, smuggler, undocumented, perilous
Vigilance, fire resistant, assess, implication, precautionary
Speculation, functional, inhalation, uncontrolled,
significance
Complacent, enamoured, astonishment, apprehension
contempt

TERM 4 YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT!

YEAR 6 EVERYDAY WRITING WARM UP

Week
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Topic /Resource
Healthy Food
Healthy Food
Memories
Memories
Changes ir/reversible
Changes ir/reversible
Christmas
Revision
Nil

TERM 4

Challenge words
Gourmet, insatiable, aficionado, culinary, condiment
Connoisseur, carcinogen, ambiance, salivate, addictive
Reminisce, recollection, precious, cherished, wistful
Uncanny, memorable, elusive, reminiscent, vague
Transformation, insoluble, solvent, saturation, filtration
Solidify, precipitate, evaporative, reactive, separable
Yule-tide, Jesus, reflection, secular worshiper