Teachers' Guide

How to write what you want to say … in the secondary years: Teacher’s Guide provides guidelines for the explicit teaching of a writing skill, using a four-stage process.

a. Deconstructing a text that is an example of the skill. The text structure and the language used (sentence starters and connectives within and between sentences) are identified.

b. Modelling a text that is an example of the skill.

c. Jointly constructing a text that is an example of the skill.

d. Independently constructing a text that is an example of the skill. The teacher’s guide contains the answers to the activities that students complete in their workbooks. It also contains completed graphic organisers for the examples of the writing skills in How to write what you want to say … in the secondary years (2nd edition).