Write Ways: Modelling Writing Forms

Covering a broad range of text types--both factual and fictional--Write Ways is the foremost guide to teaching children how to write in different styles and genres. Including all the essential tools for teaching children how to write in different styles, it is an invaluable resource for pre-service teachers throughout their degrees, and a great reference to take into the classroom.

The third edition of this comprehensive and practical book is expanded to include a theoretical foundation, as well as more material on program planning, assessment and record keeping. New chapters cover the theory behind teaching children how to write different text types.

Highlights of this edition
· "Think and Link" questions throughout each chapter, which ask readers to think about related topics and how they connect

· Annotated further reading lists, which recommend the best references for each topic and explain why these references are valuable

· Glossary of key terms

· The Oxford Wordlist of the most frequently used words collected from writing samples of students in their first three years of school