The Wrath of the Abyss

Year 6 · Adventure

The Wrath of the Abyss is a free, NAPLAN-aligned adventure writing resource for Year 6 students. It includes a story starter, complication, tiered vocabulary and scaffolds mapped to the Australian Curriculum (AC9).

Year 6 AC9E6LE05 AC9E6LA05 AC9E6LA08 AC9E6LA09 AC9E6LA04 AC9E6LY06

Supports the Year 6 achievement standard (creating written texts).

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

The storm had been brewing for hours. The skies darkened, and the wind howled, but it was the sea that made my blood run cold. As the captain of the Black Horizon, I had sailed through many a tempest, but nothing prepared me for this. Out of the depths, a monstrous arm rose from the churning waves, an enormous tentacle, slick and slicked with venom, twisting toward our ship. It was no ordinary creature. This was the beast of legends. The Kraken. And it was coming for us.

The complication

  1. As the tentacle crashed against the Black Horizon, I realised that our ship was taking on water, and we needed to find a way to stay afloat.
  2. The crew began to panic, arguing among themselves about whether to fight the Kraken or flee into the stormy seas for safety.
  3. Just as I thought we might escape, a second tentacle emerged, wrapping around the ship and threatening to pull us under.

Sentence starters

  1. Suddenly, the ship lurched violently as the tentacle struck the hull with a deafening crash.
  2. "Hold on tight!" I shouted, my voice barely audible over the roar of the storm.

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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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