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Writing

Key resources

  • asTTle What Next: Writing
    These writing resources can be used in conjunction with the asTTle CD-ROM or as a stand-alone resource. Links are provided to resources supporting purposes and audiences, ideas, language, and structure.
  • Features of text forms : Describes the ways different text forms vary according to their purpose and audience.
  • New Zealand exemplars in English : The matrices for poetic and transactional writing unpack what the deeper features of 'purposes and audiences' might look like at levels 1–5.

  • Purposes and audiences: on the NZ Curriculum page, teachers can select appropriate curriculum descriptors to find out 'What it looks like' and 'Why it's important'.

    Listening, reading, viewing: Level 2 / Level 4 / Level 6 / Level 8

    Speaking, writing, presenting: Level 2 / Level 4 / Level 6 / Level 8

Other resources

  • Writers in Schools
    Organised by the NZ Book Councils, this explains how to get writers to visit your school.
  • How to Write a Book Review
    This site assists students writing a book review. Suitable for secondary students.
  • BBC Skillwise – Planning Your Writing
    This site has a range of fact sheets on how to help students plan and organise their ideas for writing, including printable organisers. Students can also be a virtual traveller and listen to an audio and then choose a method to plan a travel diary.
  • Biographies and Memoirs
    This site includes biographies that may intrigue and delight. This selection covers a wide range of subjects at a variety of reading levels. Levels 1–8
  • Crafting the essay
    Writing instruction for secondary students from Johns Hopkins University Center, with a series of 14 online lessons that students can work on at their own pace. Each lesson develops skills needed for a final writing assignment. “Before you Begin” provides an explanation of the tools.
  • Creative non-fiction
    From Web English Teacher, links to resources, definitions, and examples of creative non-fiction, which is alternatively known as 'literary journalism' or the 'literature of fact'. Creative Non-Fiction employs the literary techniques and artistic vision usually associated with fiction or poetry to report on actual persons and events.
  • English – Writing a story
    This interactive lesson for students to use when planning to write a narrative is in two parts
  • Spelling City: This US site is designed to help children improve their spelling skills. It uses both visual and auditory (a human voice) input to improve retention. Teachers and parents can enter and save their own spelling lists that students can use to play games.
  • Teaching voice with Anthony Browne's Voices in the Park
    This ReadWriteThink lesson focuses on the concept of voice, which is often difficult for middle school students to incorporate into their writing. The lesson provides a clear example of an author who created four specific voices.
  • Writing argumentative essays
    This site provides guidance on introductions, conclusions and structure, evaluating and using evidence, and developing arguments in paragraphs.
  • Writing arguments
    This site highlights key concepts, strategies, and resources for writing arguments.
  • Writing instructions
    What are the main features of written instructions? Compare some good and bad instructions and learn how verbs are used.

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