Excel Essential Skills - Writing & Spelling Workbook Years 7-8

Specifically written for the Australian Curriculum English course, this book will help students master the main language features and structures of the most common types of text for Years 7–8. Each unit outlines the process of planning, drafting and writing a specific type of text, and then provides advanced and intermediate sample texts as benchmarks for students’ own writing.

CHAPTERS:

To the students
Marking criteria
Persuasive texts
1 Persuasive speeches
2 Discussion essays
3 Film reviews
4 Blog posts
Informative texts
5 Procedures
6 Research reports
7 Explanatory essays
8 News reports
Imaginative texts
9 Descriptions
10 Short stories
11 Biographies
12 Narrative poems
Answers