Text Types for Primary Schools is an engaging and innovative series, designed to assist students to write in a variety of text types according to their needs and purposes. The books provide relevant and challenging writing models that reflect the aims of all current state curriculum documents.
Series Features
Starter book presented in a new portrait format is presented in a larger format to allow for young students' needs for extra space to draw and write their responses
A new text type has been included in this edition – for the Starter Book: Transactional texts, and for Books 1–6: Transactional texts and Biography
Specific text types have been re-organised from simplest to hardest text types under the two main headings: Factual and Literary Texts.
Books 1–6 are divided into 26 units of work, and each unit focuses on a specific text type.
Each unit consists of two pages and includes the following features:
a model of a particular text type
a corresponding page for students to practise this text type in context
additional ideas and activities to extend students' knowledge of the different text types
scope and sequence chart
progress chart to keep track of the student's work
student self-assessment page
overview of the topic content for all text types featured in the series.