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Grade 8 · English Language Arts · Unit 12 of 14

Plan, Form & Voice

Pick a text form, organize ideas, find your voice

What your child practises

Children choose a text form for a purpose and audience, group ideas with patterns such as cause and effect, and match tone and voice to what they are writing.

Manitoba Curriculum learning outcome: ELA.8.C1.1, ELA.8.C1.3, ELA.8.C1.4, ELA.8.C1.5, ELA.8.C2.1, ELA.8.C2.4, ELA.8.C3.5 · choosing a form for purpose and audience, planning tools, organizational patterns, voice and tone, and multimodal forms

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which text form is best for telling what happened at an event today?

    • a news article
    • a diary of a made-up character
    • a poem
    • a list of rules

  2. Question 2

    Which text form best explains how to do something step by step?

    • instructions
    • a persuasive essay
    • a diary entry
    • a poem

  3. Question 3

    Which pair matches?

    • poem – timetable
    • instructions – opinions
    • journal – personal thoughts and experiences
    • report – rhyme and rhythm

  4. Question 4

    Which brainstorming tool helps you sketch the ideas for a story?

    • a dictionary
    • a storyboard
    • an index
    • a bibliography

  5. Question 5

    Purpose is…

    • the length of the piece
    • the reason you are writing, such as to inform, persuade or entertain
    • the spelling
    • the title only

  6. Question 6

    A student wants to show how the number of birds changed over 5 years. Which form works best?

    • a recipe
    • a diary of one day
    • a poem with no data
    • an infographic with a graph

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