The Great Creeper Escape

Year 4 · Adventure

The Great Creeper Escape is a free, NAPLAN-aligned adventure writing resource for Year 4 students. It includes a story starter, complication, tiered vocabulary and scaffolds mapped to the Australian Curriculum (AC9).

Year 4 AC9E4LE05 AC9E4LA06 AC9E4LA04 AC9E4LA12 AC9E4LA11 AC9E4LY06

Supports the Year 4 achievement standard (creating written texts).

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

Steve and Alex had explored the Overworld for hours. They mined deep caves and collected rare loot. The sun dipped below the horizon. Suddenly, they heard a familiar sound of hissing in the air. Creepers! Not one, not two, but an entire swarm was closing in from both sides! They had no time to build shelter, so they ran. Their feet splashed through the water as they hurried. They reached an island, but it was too small. They were trapped.

The complication

  1. Just as they think they have escaped, a massive wave crashes against the island, washing away their only means of escape.
  2. The hissing intensifies as the Creepers manage to jump onto the island, forcing Steve and Alex to find a way to defend themselves.
  3. Suddenly, a mysterious figure appears on the island, claiming to know how to defeat the Creepers but asking for something in return.

Sentence starters

  1. Suddenly, the ground shook beneath them as the Creepers drew closer, their hissing growing louder.
  2. "What do we do now?" Steve shouted, glancing at Alex with wide eyes.

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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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