DJ Carrot’s Fridge Funk

Year 3 · Fun

DJ Carrot’s Fridge Funk is a free, NAPLAN-aligned fun writing resource for Year 3 students. It includes a story starter, complication, tiered vocabulary and scaffolds mapped to the Australian Curriculum (AC9).

Year 3 AC9E3LE05 AC9E3LA06 AC9E3LA10 AC9E3LA11 AC9E3LA04 AC9E3LY06

Supports the Year 3 achievement standard (creating written texts).

Australian Curriculum content descriptions © ACARA. Writesy is not affiliated with or endorsed by ACARA.

The refrigerator door closed for the night. The party began! DJ Carrot stepped up to the turntables. She adjusted her glasses and raised a leafy fist. “Are you ready to mix it up?” she shouted. The crowd of veggies and fruits cheered. The tomatoes bounced in rhythm. The eggplant spun on its stem. The broccoli raised their florets high. Just as the party hit its peak, a deep, rumbling voice echoed through the fridge. “Who turned out the disco lights?”

The complication

  1. DJ Carrot must figure out who is responsible for the disco lights.
  2. The vegetables and fruits start panicking when they realise that the fridge might be running low on energy, threatening their party.
  3. A mischievous cucumber decides to play a prank by pretending to be the source of the rumbling voice, causing confusion among the party-goers.

Sentence starters

  1. Later that night, DJ Carrot decided it was time for a dance-off.
  2. Suddenly, a flash of light illuminated every corner of the refrigerator.

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What's in the full resource

  • Complications
  • Brainstorming Prompts
  • Vocabulary Support
  • Sentence Starters
  • Dialogue Prompts
  • Writing Challenges
  • Sentence Variety
  • Creative Twists
  • Writing Checklist
  • Reflective Questions
  • Collaborative Writing Ideas
  • Printable teacher and student PDFs

NAPLAN writing criteria this resource targets

Audience Text structure Ideas Character and setting Vocabulary Cohesion Paragraphing Sentence structure Punctuation Spelling

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