Winner of The Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing 2008
Primary Literacy Series Award

Linking reading to writing

PM Writing is a complete learning, teaching and assessment package that places an emphasis on the development of the writing process in the first 3 years of primary school. PM Writing provides explicit and systematic instruction in writing, incorporating shared, guided and independent writing and independent reading.

KEY FEATURES

• explicit links to reading, writing and speaking and listening
• sequential introduction of text types and text forms for the first 3 years of schooling
• helps develops knowledge of the grammatical patterns of texts
• highly supportive teachers’ notes
• adopts a whole class – small group – whole class approach
• writing goals to guide and support students and teachers
• cross curricular themes and topics
• teaching and learning strategies promoting writing for a variety of purposes and audiences