{"product_id":"narrative-writing-game-years-5-and-6-creative-writing-digital-unit-emberwick","title":"Narrative Writing Game Years 5 and 6 | Creative Writing Digital Unit | Emberwick","description":"\u003cp\u003eA narrative writing game: a digital creative writing unit for Years 5 and 6 where each student writes on their own device and every finished piece relights a painted harbour town. One offline HTML file, no logins, nothing to install, with a teacher console included.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lights of a little harbour town are going out, and only stories can bring them back. Your students become Keepers of the Lantern Archive, an old library under the lighthouse in the harbour town of Emberwick. A grey quiet called the Hush has crept in and the town has gone dark. Each room of the Archive teaches one part of writing a good story, and every short piece a student finishes lights a lamp, warms a painted room back to colour and lights more windows in their own harbour skyline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition is written for upper primary: shorter prompts, simpler words and tasks of four to six minutes, with help built into every step. It uses the same town, painted art, characters and voices as the Years 7 to 9 game.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHAT STUDENTS DO\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnswer the Archive's letter, sign their Keeper's name and choose a lantern.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWork through six rooms: exact nouns and strong verbs (the Ink Garden), the senses (the Window Room), show, don't tell (the Portrait Room), speech marks (the Whispering Gallery), mood (the Mirror Hall) and trimming a draft (the Bindery). An optional seventh, the Spyglass Stair, practises keeping to \"I\" or \"he\" and \"she\".\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLight three Lamps in every room, each a small step harder than the last.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFinish with the Unfinished Tale, their own story written in three short stages that relights the great lighthouse lamp.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHELP FOR EVERY WRITER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery Lamp has a Helping Hand (three small steps and a fill-the-gaps frame), a Stretch task for confident writers, sentence starters, tricky words explained, a worked example and \"Read it to me\" buttons that use the browser's own voice, so they work offline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFOR THE TEACHER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe teacher console turns each student's Lantern Code, a 16-character code that holds progress only (never names or writing), into a class skyline for the board and a private progress table. It also has a five-minute mini-lesson for every room and every stage of the Unfinished Tale, ready to show on the board.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHOW IT RUNS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne HTML file. Open it in Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo logins, no server, nothing to install.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorks offline. The painted art, voices, music and fonts are all inside the file.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAustralian or US English: a Spelling choice in Settings switches the on-screen spelling. It follows the browser's language on a first visit. The recorded voices stay the same either way.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStudent writing saves in the browser as they type. A Keeper's Key lets a student carry on at another computer.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCURRICULUM\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for the Australian Curriculum: English (v9) in Years 5 and 6. Every room and Lamp is mapped to five curricula: the Australian Curriculum (v9), the US Common Core State Standards, the National Curriculum in England (Key Stage 2), Cambridge Primary English and the IB PYP. The teacher console shows the links for each.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHAT'S INCLUDED\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEmberwick: The Lantern Archive, Years 5 and 6 student game (one offline HTML file)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA slim copy of the game (about 14 MB) for slow networks or small drives: no music, and Read it to me uses the computer's own voice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe teacher console (one offline HTML file) with Lantern Codes, class skyline, progress table, curriculum view and mini-lessons\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSix writing rooms plus the optional Spyglass Stair, three Lamps in each\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Unfinished Tale capstone in three stages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHelping Hand, Stretch and read-aloud on every Lamp\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA voiced opening story, original music and painted artwork throughout\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor Your IT Team (PDF, 1 page)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSTART HERE quick guide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHICH EMBERWICK EDITION DO I NEED?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll five editions are set in the same painted town and are in the Star Class Academy store.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTeacher-Led Edition, Years 5 and 6: 12 lessons you teach from one screen, with a 32-page printed Keeper's Journal. No student devices needed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTeacher-Led Edition, Years 3 and 4: 10 lessons plus a bonus lesson on one screen, a 28-page Keeper's Journal and fill-the-gaps First Lamp pages.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTeacher-Led Edition, Years 7 to 9: 12 lessons plus a bonus lesson, a 48-page Keeper's Journal, three Lamps in every lesson and Relief Lesson Cards.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStudent Game Edition, Years 5 and 6 (this one): each student writes on their own device, with the teacher console.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStudent Game Edition, Years 7 to 9: the full game for older students, with the teacher console.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeaching from the projector? Choose a Teacher-Led Edition. Want students writing on their own devices? 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