The Great Jam Apocalypse

Year 5 · Fantasy

The Great Jam Apocalypse is a free, NAPLAN-aligned fantasy 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.

Emma and Jake froze as they turned the corner near City Hall. A crowd of people stumbled forward, groaning, their arms outstretched and faces smeared in red. "Zombies?!" Jake gasped. But Emma leaned in closer. "Wait… is that… JAM?!" Just then, a baker ran past, flailing his arms. "Help! The Grand Jam Factory exploded! The town is drowning in strawberry spread!" Emma and Jake had faced messes before, but nothing like this. If they didn’t stop the sticky swarm soon, the whole town would be trapped in a sugary apocalypse!

The complication

  1. Emma and Jake must figure out how to navigate through the jam-covered streets without getting stuck themselves, as the crowd of people becomes more frantic.
  2. They encounter a rival group of kids who want to claim the jam for themselves, leading to a sticky showdown.
  3. The baker reveals that the explosion also released a secret ingredient that could turn the jam into something even more dangerous if not contained quickly.

Vocabulary support

Tier 1: jam, run, help, town, people

plus 5 Tier 2 and 5 Tier 3 words with your free account

Sentence starters

  1. Just as they were about to dive into action, a loud crash echoed from behind them.
  2. The sweet scent of strawberries filled the air, making Emma's stomach rumble.

…and 1 more with your free account.

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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