Writing Text Types: A Practical Journal

Writing Text Types is a full-colour resource designed to help teachers promote, and pupils develop, a range of writing skills covering the following topics:

• Impacts of technology
• Sources of energy
• Environmental Issues 
• Health, well-being and 'Who I am'
• Global concerns
• Reaching out, stepping up

Pupils are encouraged to use their prior knowledge of the topic; and their imagination, personal experience and opinions in completing different writing tasks in specific genres. A total of 60 writing topics covering six themes are included, focusing on the writing forms recount, discussion, narrative, exposition, procedure, explanation and report.

Features include:

• six themes, each with 10 writing activities
• tasks cover the seven writing forms within each theme
• explanation of each writing genre, including definition, text structure and language features
•  icons indicate each theme being covered.