Wings Teacher-Led Bundle: Four Writing Units (Years 7 to 9)

Four no-prep writing units for Years 7 to 9: narrative, persuasive, informative and analytical writing, 12 lessons each, all taught from one screen. Students write in their books, most lessons follow the same rhythm, and each unit's Lesson Guide has a page for every lesson, so it also suits relief days.

Put a unit on your projector, TV or interactive whiteboard and press the right arrow. Runs in a browser. Nothing to install, no account, no student devices, and it works offline.

WHICH EDITION DO I NEED?

• Teacher-Led Editions (this bundle: all four): 12 lessons per unit that you run from one screen. Students write in their books. No student devices, no logins, no prep. Each unit has a Lesson Guide and an optional student booklet.
• Student Game Editions: each student works on their own device, with six skill bays, a capstone and a teacher console. Choose them if your class has laptops or tablets.
• Emberwick: The Lantern Archive, Teacher-Led Edition (Years 7 to 9), narrative only: 12 lessons plus a bonus lesson, set in a painted harbour town, with voiced characters and music, a printed Keeper's Journal, three levels in every lesson and Relief Lesson Cards. Choose it if you want a story world to carry your narrative unit.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

Four units, each with:

• The lesson app: one HTML file with 12 lessons, the artwork, music and sound effects built in
• A Lesson Guide (PDF, 14 pages): one page per lesson with every step and its minutes, teacher notes, answers and curriculum links
• A Cadet Logbook (PDF): an optional printable student booklet, one page per lesson
• A START HERE read-me

THE FOUR UNITS

• Narrative Writing: setting, vocabulary, genre, dialogue, character and description, building to a drafted and revised opening chapter
• Persuasive Writing: appeals, claims, audience, rebuttal and evidence, building to a closing argument delivered as a speech
• Informative Writing: precise terms, structure, definitions, explaining processes and flow, building to a full explanatory report
• Analytical Writing: techniques, quotations, PEEL and TEEL paragraphs, depth of analysis and evidence from texts, images and film, building to a full analytical essay on a real text ("Ozymandias", the opening of The War of the Worlds, or Scott's last diary entry, all printed in the Cadet Logbook)

HOW A LESSON RUNS

Most lessons follow the same rhythm, so once your class knows one unit they know them all: learning intention, a story beat, a timed warm-up, explicit teaching, a modelled example the class predicts move by move, a shared draft on the live board, independent writing against the timer with support and stretch, then success criteria and an exit ticket. The planning and final writing lessons at the end of each unit leave some steps out.

Lessons run 39 to 56 minutes, and each Lesson Guide shows the time for each step and the total for each lesson. In the six skill bay lessons of each unit you choose Cadet, Officer or Commander level for the class.

The story carries across every unit. Your class are cadets whose ship has crash-landed, and each lesson moves the mission forward.

EASY TO RUN

• Keys: arrows or Space to move, T for the timer, R to reveal answers, H for a hint from Nova, F for full screen, M for music, ? for teacher notes
• Works with a presentation clicker
• Nothing about students is collected or saved

CURRICULUM

Australian Curriculum v9 English, Years 7, 8 and 9, and Common Core Writing, Reading Literature, Language and Speaking and Listening standards for Years 7 to 10. The codes for each lesson are in each Lesson Guide.

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The five free writing worksheet packs in the Star Class Academy store practise the same skills on paper, and Star Class HQ is free too: a classroom hub with a behaviour tracker, name pickers and reward games, running in a browser.

Licensed for one teacher and their own classes.

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