Written Commentary

Written commentary ...

• explains how & why you have written a particular text.

• Describes your process in crafting a text.

• Explains how mentor texts inspired you

• All of the above.

FLAPC stands for...

• Form, language, audience, prose, context.

• Form, language, audience, purpose, context.

• Form, audience, audio, prose, context.

• Form, language, audio, purpose, context.

How many body paragraphs should your commentary include?

• at least 3 per text

• 10 per text

• 1-2

• 17

'online feature article' and 'online film review' are both different ____ of texts (Think of F in FLAPC).

Your final body paragraph should explain how you have used ________ to edit your writing.

In your feedback paragraph...who can you say helped you develop your writing?

• All of the above

• My teacher

• My peer

• Myself and my own thought / drafting process.

Can I discuss things I found difficult, things I struggled with or things that I wanted to change and why?

• YES absolutely!

• NO-WAY-HOZAY

For my first piece, I decided to write an online review for the Pixar film, 'WALL-E'.

This is an example of introducing/discussing...

• Audience

• Feedback

• Form

• Elements of the text

'In the studied mentor text, the author used the pun "The Fault in Our Star Wars" to critique the latest film. I also included a pun "Droid Story" to engage readers with humour.

This explains how the author...

• Took inspiration from a mentor text.

• Discussed the element of a 'pun'.

• Both answers are correct

a side bar with selectable options, an image, short sentences/paragraphs, puns, descriptive phrases, like buttons, tags, white space...

These are all examples of what?

• Text types

• elements characteristic to an different texts

• forms of a newspaper article

• Not sure