This activity should be worked on in the classroom under teacher supervision to ensure authenticity. Teachers may guide students actively through the initial exercise helping them to identify techniques mentioned. Teachers may show how the techniques used in the exemplars can be applied to students' own writing. Between drafts, teachers can advise students that their writing may need further work on ideas, language, structure or accuracy in spelling, punctuation or paragraphing but not correct errors. Students should have access to dictionaries to check their writing.
Word processing is acceptable providing it is done under teacher supervision.
The achievement standard will be awarded at the level of the best piece of writing. Exercises which are modelled with the students cannot be used as writing pieces for submission, however they may be used as starting points for further work. Before you begin writing, you will look at exemplars of student writing and focus on techniques you could use to develop your own writing effectively. Read a selection of texts featuring journeys undertaken for different reasons. As well as describing a physical journey from one place to another, the journeys in several of these texts have an emotional or mental dimension where the writer's memories and thoughts are important in the retelling of the journey.