Tiny Turbo and the Grumpy Giant Truck, The Great City Face-Off

Year 3 · Humour

Tiny Turbo and the Grumpy Giant Truck, The Great City Face-Off is a free, NAPLAN-aligned humour 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.

A little mini car trembled on the busy city street. Its headlights looked like wide eyes and it faced a huge monster truck that wore a mean scowl. People stood on the footpath and pointed because the two vehicles were having a face off. The little car beeped loudly and prepared to do something surprising.

The complication

  • The monster truck tries to scare the little car off the road by revving loudly and blocking its path.
  • The little car stalls when it attempts a surprise move, leaving it stranded in the middle of the street as traffic builds.
  • A bystander tries to help but makes the situation worse by distracting the little car, so the mini car must find a way to solve the problem on its own.

Sentence starters

  1. Action opener: I pressed the horn again and sped forward before the monster truck could move.
  2. After opener: After the little car took a deep breath, it raced towards a narrow gap between two parked vans.

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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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