Excel Essential Skills: Writing and 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
• Persuasive speeches
• Discussion essays
• Film reviews
• Blog posts
• Informative texts
• Procedures
• Research reports
• Explanatory essays
• News reports
• Imaginative texts
• Descriptions
• Short stories
• Biographies
• Narrative poems
• Answers