Page/Link: Page URL: HTML link: The Free Library. Retrieved Mar 10 2019 from Write Ways: Modelling Writing Forms Lesley Wing Jan 3rd Edition South Melbourne, Victoria: Oxford University Press, 2009. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] What a fabulous practical book providing classroom activities that can be implemented within the context of Australian curriculum in 2009+. What I also love about this publication is that it is underpinned by sound literacy theory. The integration of teaching and learning theory and practice, program planning ideas and the embedded analysis of reading and writing text types makes this book an invaluable resource for teachers. This combination of theory and practice is all too often missing in activity based classroom material. Lesley Wing Jan's book highlights the importance of visual literacy, critical literacy and technological literacy which are all essential attributes of a literate person in the information age of the 21st Century.

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Knowledge of the complex relationship of these attributes of multimodal literacy is very important for both students and teachers. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The seven chapters on Factual Text types and the four chapters on Fictional Text types are an excellent coverage of the defining features of the various types of genre that students encounter. Each chapter is presented in a very easy to read style in a well laid out structure containing a wealth of information about each text type or genre. A clear explanation is followed by examples of the genre, an outline of the structure and key language features. I particularly like the annotated illustrations in each chapter providing the examples of the main defining features of the various genre included in the text. This book is not only a valuable addition to any practicing classroom teacher's professional library, but also, as set text to any literacy course for preservice teachers. Heather Fehring, VIC.

Publisher Description Your best text types resource, from the lecturer theatre to the classroom Write Ways is a practical, user-friendly text for both teacher education students and practicing teachers. It explains how to teach students to write in all the major text types-not only in English, but across the curriculum-and provides clear, useful examples of classroom practice, planning and assessment. New to this editionReferences to the Australian CurriculumIncreased focus on grammar, multiliteracies, literacy practices and teaching focuses at whole text, paragraph, clause, sentence, word group and word levelMore emphasis on multiliteracies, critical literacy and ICT, and how these look in classroom practiceICT margin notes suggesting how to use technology to teach text typesAll new sample units at the end of chapters 6 to 16. Long Description Write Ways, now in its 4th edition, is a comprehensive and practical resource for pre-service and in-service teachers on the writing process and how to teach text types.It provides teacher teachers with information and strategies they can draw on when observing their students and their writing; assessing their progress; providing timely and explicit feedback; and planning focussed teaching and learning sequences so that students develop as thoughtful, competent and engaged writers.