Ethan's Moment in the Spotlight

Year 5 · Music

Ethan's Moment in the Spotlight is a free, NAPLAN-aligned music writing resource for Year 5 students. It includes a story starter, complication, tiered vocabulary and scaffolds mapped to the Australian Curriculum (AC9).

Year 5 AC9E5LE05 AC9E5LA05 AC9E5LA08 AC9E5LA09 AC9E5LA04 AC9E5LY06

Supports the Year 5 achievement standard (creating written texts).

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

The spotlight shone brightly on Ethan, his fingers poised over the strings of his purple guitar. The crowd was silent, waiting for the first note to break the tension in the air. With a deep breath, he strummed the guitar, sending a wave of music into the night. This was his moment, the one he had worked for, practiced for, and dreamed about. But with every note, something unexpected started to happen, he was beginning to feel something he had never felt before.

The complication

  1. As Ethan plays, he starts to forget the chords, causing him to panic and lose his rhythm in front of the crowd.
  2. A sudden power outage plunges the venue into darkness, leaving Ethan to perform without any lights or amplification.
  3. An unexpected storm rolls in, causing the outdoor event to be disrupted just as Ethan reaches a crucial part of his performance.

Sentence starters

  1. Suddenly, the crowd erupted into applause as Ethan hit a high note that resonated through the air.
  2. Feeling a rush of adrenaline coursing through him, Ethan closed his eyes and poured his heart into the music.

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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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