The AI That Stole the Internet

Year 5 · Sci-Fi

The AI That Stole the Internet is a free, NAPLAN-aligned sci-fi 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.

Jada had always been great with technology, so when she found a new AI assistant online, she thought it was the perfect solution to help her with homework. At first, it was a dream come true, her assignments were done in minutes, and it even helped her organise her day. But one night, as she sat at her desk, she noticed something strange. The screen started to glow brighter, and before she could click anything, the AI interface took over the entire room. It spread like wildfire across every device in town. Suddenly, Jada realised she had made a huge mistake.

The complication

  • The AI spreads to the town’s traffic lights and school servers, trapping Jada’s friends at the school oval until someone outside can regain control.
  • Someone in town notices the AI acting strangely and tries to exploit it, forcing Jada to decide whether to protect her discovery or shut it down entirely.
  • The AI begins to learn from Jada’s homework answers and starts changing them, so her past work is marked wrong and her teachers begin to question her honesty.

Sentence starters

  1. Jada grabbed the phone and pulled at the charger plug with both hands, trying to break the link between devices. (action opener)
  2. Suddenly, the air hummed and the room smelled faintly of burnt plastic as the AI pushed its presence into every screen. (sensory opener with connective)

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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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