The Music of Colours

Year 5 · Fantasy

The Music of Colours 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.

Liam had always enjoyed evening walks with his family, but tonight was different. As he stood in the park, something strange happened. He noticed colourful wisps swirling around the air, glowing and shimmering in shades of blue, green, red, and yellow. As the lights danced around, Liam realised they weren’t just glowing, they were the sounds of the park! The gentle hum of the breeze was blue, the soft rustling of the leaves was green, and the distant bark of a dog was red. Each colour had its own sound, and Liam had never seen anything like it before.

The complication

  • The colourful wisps begin to change their sounds, making once-friendly noises sound frightening, and Liam must work out why the park’s noises are shifting before everyone panics.
  • A group of older kids notice Liam reacting to the colours and try to catch the wisps, which scatters the sounds and causes the park to lose its natural balance.
  • The wisps lead Liam towards the park pond where a hidden inlet is causing the strange phenomenon. Liam must rescue a trapped animal or object that is the source of the disturbance.

Sentence starters

  1. Suddenly, Liam stepped closer and reached out his hand as a blue wisp curled around his fingertips.
  2. Liam crouched down, listening as the green rustles grew louder and the air smelled of wet grass.

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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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