Excel Essential Skills: Writing and Spelling Workbook Years 7-8

Specifically written for the Australian Curriculum English course, th is book will help students master the main language features and structu res of the most common types of text for Years 7–8. Each unit outl ines the process of planning, drafting and writing a specific type of te xt, and then provides advanced and intermediate sample texts as benchmar ks for students’ own writing.

CHAPTERS:

To the students
Marking criteria
Persuasive texts
1 Persuasive speeches
2 Discussion essays
3 Fil m reviews
4 Blog posts
Informative texts
5 Procedures
6 Research reports
7 Explanatory essays
8 N ews reports
Imaginative texts
9 Descriptions< br />10 Short stories
11 Biographies
12 Narrative poems
A nswers