Create an environment that encourages writing, in your class, with Teaching Writing Skills. Prepare your 'want-to-be' authors to write independently through a process of drafting, revising, editing and publishing.

Get their copy books full of:

• narratives that will stir the imagination
• recounts that provide real insight
• reports that will have readers riveted
• explanations that are exact
• discussions that are definite.

Features:

• text types covered are: narrative, recount, report, procedure, explanation and discussion
• three four-page units per text
• each unit consists of: example of text type; framework to analyse text; framework to write own text; and accompanying teachers notes
• additional teachers notes include information about each text type and writing and editing checklists