Excel Advanced Skills - Writing Workbook

Excel Advanced Skills - Writing Workbooks will help primary school students improve their writing in English and other subjects. Each unit focuses on a different type of text by looking at its particular features and how to apply them. All activities are designed to encourage students to think about and enjoy writing, and to give them meaningful practice in improving their own writing.

Excel Advanced Skills - Writing Workbook: Year 1 will teach children the skills they need to become effective writers for different purposes and audiences. They will learn how to write a variety of informative, imaginative and persuasive texts using grammar and punctuation skills in the context of effective written communication. The sample texts provided can be used as models for children’s independent writing. All activities are designed to support students’ appreciation of written language, and to give them meaningful practice in improving their own writing.

This book has been specifically written for Year 1 Australian Curriculum: English.

Year 1

Contents:

• About this book
• Sentences—statements and questions
• Statements, questions and exclamations
• Nouns and noun groups
• Verbs
• Word groups that tell how, where or when
• Connecting parts of a text
• Imaginative texts
• Informative texts
• Persuasive texts
• Answers