Write Away: Book 6: Essays

The ‘Write Away’ photocopiable series looks at several different types of writing from everyday note-making to extended essays. The books follow a graded sequence (from book to book).

Reading Age: 8+ / Chronological Age: 11 to Adult

Published by Learning Materials Ltd, the ‘Write Away’ photocopiable series looks at several different types of writing from everyday note-making to extended essays. The books follow a graded sequence (from book to book). Each book contains models of appropriate language and structure and activities that lead children, in a step-by-step way, towards independent writing.

The series has been designed to help older students with various written activities. Most pages are followed by writing frames / templates to allow pupils to extend their work over two stages that would have been difficult over one stage.

Reading Age: 8+ / Chronological Age: 11 to Adult

• Book 1: Everyday Skills [Notes, cards, postcards, instructions and letters]
• Book 2: Popular Media and Information [Cartoon strips, magazines, newspaper reports, information leaflets]
• Book 3: Humour, Poetry and Drama [Jokes, limericks, poems, dialogues and drama]
• Book 4: Personal Writing and Stories [Diary writing, autobiographical events, biography and fictional narratives]
• Book 5: Cross-curricular Text Types [Experiment report, investigation plan, technology plan, writing for geography and history]
• Book 6: Essays [Note-making and planning, Essay types: explanation, comparison, discussion, persuasion, evaluation]