Text Types for Primary Schools - Year 1

Part of the series Text Types for Primary Schools.

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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.

Features

• Provide relevant and challenging writing models in a range of factual and literacy text types and forms
• 'Your Turn' pages encourage students to use the writing model to construct their own written texts
• Provide teachers with support for planning and include scope-and-sequence charts and student writing profiles
• Highlight text structure and relevant language features

Units of Work

Specific text types have been re-organised from simplest to hardest text types under the two main headings: Factual and Literary Texts. Text Types for Primary Schools - Year 1 is 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