Developing Writing Skills Book 1 - for Junior Secondary Students

Author(s): Helen de Souza Joyce and Susan Feez

Writing Skills | Writing Skills

DEVELOPING WRITING SCHOOLS assists students to develop a broad range of writing skills with a particular focus on less abstract and more personally oriented texts. Each student book has information and explanations to assist students with essential rules, definitions, processes and concepts, and an extensive range of exercises. Each unit in Book 1 for junior secondary students has an extensive range of exercises which provide practice in: § identifying the features of written language § analysing text models § structuring whole texts § using grammar and vocabulary appropriate to different texts § writing texts for particular purposes § editing texts.
(NZ Year 9)


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Contents:
Unit 1 The skills and elements of writing
Developing writing skills
Writing for different purpose
Form follows function
Structuring texts
Example of a spoken recount
Example of a written recount
Example of a report
Making language work in text
Levels within texts
Identifying paragraphs
Identifying sentences
Identifying verbs and clauses
Joining equal clauses
Joining unequal clauses
Identifying word groups within clauses
Working with nouns and noun groups
Working with verbs and verb groups
Working with phrases
Working with adverbial elements
Working with conjunctions
Working with pronouns
Unit 2 Telling stories through narratives
Identifying the structure of narratives
Identifying verbs in narratives
Sequencing events in narratives
Putting a point of view into narratives
Heroes, anti-heroes and messages in narratives
Writing a narrative
Unit 3 Personal responses to literature and art
Personal responses
Identifying elements of personal responses
Words that convey opinion and evaluation
Writing a personal response
Reviews
Identifying elements of reviews
Finding reviews
Words that convey judgement
Writing a review
Unit 4 Writing about the past
Biographical recounts
Identifying the structure of biographical recounts
Identifying language elements of biographical recounts
Evaluating the person’s life
Supporting evaluations with authority and evidence
Disguising judgements
Writing a biographical recount
Historical recounts
Identifying the structure of historical recounts
Identifying language elements in historical recounts
Packaging time
Evaluating a period of history
Writing a historical recount
Unit 5 Writing to instruct and record
Procedures
Identifying the structure of procedures
Identifying language elements of procedures
Accuracy in procedures
Writing a procedure
Procedural recounts
Identifying the structure of procedural recounts
Identifying language elements of procedural recounts
Packaging information in science
Being impersonal
Writing an impersonal procedural recount

General Fields

  • : 9781876580674
  • : Phoenix Education
  • : Phoenix Education
  • : November 2004
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Helen de Souza Joyce and Susan Feez
  • : Paperback
  • : 156