Text Types Teaching Resources
With such a large number of different text types, it can be difficult for students to learn and remember the corresponding purposes, structures and language features for each one. Use this extensive text types collection to assist your students when working with the different text types. Some of the educational resources available include posters and display banners to visually represent text types in your classroom, as well as learning activities including worksheets, activities, games, unit and lessons plans and PowerPoint presentations.
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Inspiring Story Starters Task Cards
Get your students writing inspiring stories with this set of story starter task cards.
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How to Grow A Sunflower – Procedural Writing Craftivity
Use this printable sunflower craft template to teach your students all they need to know about procedural writing!
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Explanation Text Type Poster With Annotations
Display this explanation text with annotations to help students identify the structure of an explanation.
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How to Stay Healthy – Procedural Writing Project
Get your students writing high-quality procedure texts with this fun “How to Stay Healthy” procedural writing project.
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Sequence a Procedure Text – Cut and Paste Worksheets
Use these procedural writing examples to teach your students about sequencing instructions in a logical order.
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Animal Adaptations - Informative Writing Prompt Worksheets
Write to describe animals and their adaptations with a printable pack of informative writing worksheets.
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Penguin Craft & Writing Template
Research and write about penguins and their adaptations, then create a fun penguin craft to display student work.
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Modal Language Matching Activity
Have students explore high modality and low modality language with this matching game to use during your persuasive writing unit.
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Persuasive Device Definitions – Match-Up Worksheet
Have students match the persuasive devices with their definitions using this simple one-page worksheet.
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Interactive Build A Snowman Sequencing Activity
Practise sequencing and writing procedural texts with an interactive How to Build a Snowman game.
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Persuasive Writing Poster Set
Display this set of persuasive posters for students to use as a guide during your persuasive writing units.
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Dog or Cat? Persuasive Writing Project
Help students plan out persuasive writing with this very common argument, which is best dogs or cats?
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Persuasive Writing Interactive (Design Your Own Pizza)
Explore persuasive writing with this fun pizza-themed interactive activity.
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Report Writing – Firefighter Activity Pack
Engage your class with firefighter activity that combines informative writing practice with real-world learning about community helpers.
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Halloween Narrative Writing Prompts — Finish the Story Writing Activity
Use this printable 'Finish the Story' writing prompt and craft to develop narrative writing skills this Halloween season.
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Halloween Roll-a-Story Dice Game
Spark spooky creativity with this Halloween Roll a Story game that helps students generate exciting writing prompts while making narrative writing fun and engaging.
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Famous Inventors Poster Project - Biography Pennant Banners
Demonstrate learning about the most influential inventors and innovators in history with a fun pennant banner template.
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Spider Writing Worksheets - Year 1
Differentiate writing instruction in year 1 with a group of leveled informational writing prompts about spiders
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The Evolution of Technology - Research Project
Explores the evolution of technology over time with a handy research project.
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Narrative Elements - Worksheet
Practise identifying characters, settings, problems and solutions in fictional texts with this set of worksheets.
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Biography Writing Word Wall
A set of 30 vocabulary words related to biography writing.
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Happy Mother's Day Writing Prompt - Super Mum Craft Template
Celebrate the women in your students’ lives with a Happy Mother's Day Writing Prompt and Craft to show them just how “Super” they really are!
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Persuasive Writing Bump It Up Wall – Year 4
A visual display for your classroom to help students 'bump up' their persuasive writing.
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Persuasive Writing Bump It Up Wall – Year 5
A visual display for your classroom to help students 'bump up' their persuasive writing.
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Write a Short Story – The Discovery or Invention
Get your students analysing and writing an invention story with this engaging and fully scaffolded writing project booklet.
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Narrative Writing Bump It Up Wall – Year 2
A visual display for your classroom to help students ‘bump up’ their narrative writing.
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Biography Brochure Template
A brochure template to use when writing biographies.
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Gold Miners' Bulletin Project
A creative writing newspaper project in which students design and write the front page of an imagined newspaper from the Australian Gold Rush era.
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Prompts for Poetry – Family and Culture
A set of 16 illustrated poetry task cards to help students write about their family and cultural celebrations.
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Biography Writing Bump It Up Wall
Use this visual display in your classroom to help students ‘bump up’ their biography writing.
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Persuasive Writing Bump It Up Wall – Year 2
A visual display for your classroom to help students ‘bump up’ their persuasive writing.
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Biography Flip Book Template
Create a flipbook that clearly illustrates the most significant aspects of a biography subject.
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