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Excel Writer's Handbook Years 5 - 8
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The Excel Writer’s Handbook is a comprehensive guide to improving students’ writing. It contains numerous explanations and examples for the practice of structured writing and will prove valuable to the following groups of students:
- students from a non-English speaking background who would benefit from a comprehensive course in writing skills.
Each section in the book (see contents listing below) consists of introductory explanatory material, examples and activities related to each chapter topic.
The main focus of each section is on providing a sound base for developing writing skills by the study of various explanations and examples. The remainder of each chapter provides structured activities. These structured activities, graduated in complexity, provide opportunities for students to practise the many aspects of writing and construction.
Part A: Focus on developing your writing
1 How to write narrative and factual texts
2 Making and using notes
3 Examining a topic
4 Punctuation and writing conventions
Part B: Focus on improving your writing
5 Writing better sentences
6 Paragraphs
7 Setting a scene
8 Creating word pictures
Part C: Focus on constructing texts
9 Text types
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