4 Text Types BLM on 1 CD
One of our most popular sellers for 2009-2010!
• Description - 92 pages
• Information Report - 75 pages
• Recount  - 33 pages &
• Procedure - 59 pages
• That's 259 pages of Text Type teaching aides
• Make your writing lessons explicit and simple
• In this resource there are a range of different proforma's for different subjects, topics, ages and stages of writing
• This BLM book on CD, provides an holistic approach to writing procedures
• Students need to hear it, say it, read it, then write it
• This continuum has been catered for in the many planning formats

Writing Description Teaching Aides BLM PDF Files
Finding it difficult to make or find proforma's for your students? Don't worry Clever Classroom has prepared them for you!
• Your Description PDF file contains a range of planning outlines for all levels and stages of writing in your classroom. Formulated from hours of studying the syllabus and creating easy to use BLM. This resource is opened ended in presentation and can suit any grade. I have also included multiple entry points, i.e. for different ability levels
• Great for classroom teachers, ESL, STLA and other support staff
• Save time compiling frameworks
• 91 pages of aides to help you implement the best program and teaching outcomes for description reading and writing
• Your Description BLM PDF CD includes the following:
• Description title page
• Description outline e.g. Purpose, Structure & Grammar
• Strips with description headings e.g. factual and literary description, subject and main features, subject, looks like, feels like, smells like, moves like, made from as well as headings for older grades like introduction to subject, characteristic features and summary
• A4 pages designed to be enlarged to A3 that have the headings noted above (with picture visual) further, these are in a worksheet form as well (modeled, guided and independent)
• The next section has a range of whole class, small group and independent activities such as:
• Shared classroom experience plus a T&L exercise,
• Class writing goal
• Purpose for listening to a description
• Purpose for reading a description
• Purpose for writing a description
• Possible topics for description
• Possible audience for a description
• What are some examples of a description?
• Who writes a description?
• Why does an author write a description?
• Class book title page for describing characters, people and animals as well as a title page for objects and things
• Describe your friend
• Brainstorm words to describe the character of..
• What other types of writing have descriptions?
• Grammar Pages Include:
• Nouns & noun groups
• Adverbial
• Action, feeling and thinking verbs
• Adjectives
• Metaphors and similes
• Blank labels for adding adjectives or verbs to a page in a book or a picture
• Many work sheets have picture prompts for writing e.g looks like, feels like
• Work sheets for all the above for different levels in your class
• Including a range of show and tell proforma's
• Word walls with grammar and description framework headings
• Proforma's, work sheets for both factual and literary descriptions
• Brainstorming sheets
• Teachers notes
• SAVE TIME THINKING ABOUT WRITING LESSON, IT'S ALL DONE FOR YOU!

AS YOU CAN PROBABLY TELL THIS RESOURCE IS A MULTIPLE ENTRY DOCUMENT AND CAN BE ADAPTED TO K-6 STAGE OUTCOMES

** Most of the above would benefit from being enlarged to A3

Information Report Writing
BLM Teaching Aides PDF File
• Great resource for the classroom
• Teaching a factual topic this term?
• Maybe animals, plants, toys, insects!
• This BLM CD contains a comprehensive collection of teacher resources to help you implement in small groups, whole class, pairs or individuals
• This BLM focuses on Structure of an information report, grammar and purpose
• My research includes the English K-6 NSW curriculum
• This BLM ties in with each state as there is not a focus on outcomes but the genre itself
• There is a focus on grammar appropriate for information reports e.g. Nouns, relating verbs, action verbs, present tense, technical terms, paragraph with topic sentences
• There is a page with an overview in which you can display in your classroom
• As well as a sign saying information reports
• Most activity pages are organized as work sheets, classroom displays and group sheets that can be enlarged to A3
• You also receive pages with questions such as what is it? (reptile, carnivore, insect) Where does it live? How does it move? What does it look like? What does it eat? How does it breed?
• For the above there are work sheets, classroom displays and group sheets that can be enlarged to A3
• You also get sheets containing:
• Class writing goal
• Reason for listening to an information report
• Reason for reading an information report
• Reason for writing an information report
• Possible audience for an information report
• Items from home we can write information about
• Open ended questions to prompt thinking
• Where can we find information question pages as well as classroom displays

Recount Planner BLM
• Your Recount file contains a range of planning outlines for all levels and stages of writing in your classroom. As well as each stage K-6.
• Your Recount file includes the following:
• 'Recount' poster
• Recount outline e.g. Purpose, Structure & Grammar
• Colourful Visual Aide (clown) with where, when, who & what
• Strips with recount, when, who, where and what
• A4 pages designed to be enlarge to A3 that have the questions noted above (with picture visual)
• The next section has a range of whole class, small group and independent activities such as:
• Shared classroom experience plus a T&L exercise,
• Class writing goal
• Purpose for listening to a recount
• Purpose for reading a recount
• Purpose for writing a recount
• Possible topics for recounts
• Possible audience for a recount
• Grammar Pages Include:
• Nouns & Pronouns
• Adverbs
• Action verbs
• Adjectives
• Conjunctions
Writing frameworks include:
• Tables with when, who, where and what presented in different ways for different grades and stages (pictures, no pictures, landscape and portrait, large lines, narrow lines, scaffolding, no scaffolding, as well as different frameworks such as:
• The beginning: When? Who? Where? The middle: What happened? Put them in order & The end: What happened last? There are variations on this as well as
• Orientation with question prompts, Series of Events with prompt and Reorientation with prompt
• There are proformas for Factual/Procedural Recount Writing
• Teachers notes
** Most of the above would benefit from being enlarged to A3
** The above is my interpretation of the NSW English Syllabus and would more than likely convert easily into other states curriculum documents.
Procedure Writing BLM Teaching Aides PDF File
• This is a handy resource for all teachers from K-6
• This resource is great for planning & delivery of procedure talking, listening, reading and writing
• Make your writing lessons explicit and simple
• All the thinking, planning, making & resources is done for you
• Save time and energy and invest in this practical, easy to use resource CD
• I have studied both the NSW syllabus and modules to come up with this unique set of planning frameworks
• When I taught procedures I often found it hard to get just the right proforma for all my students
• In this resource there are a range of different proforma's for different subjects, topics, ages and stages of writing
• This BLM book on CD, provides an holistic approach to writing procedures
• Students need to hear it, say it, read it, then write it
• This continuum has been catered for in the many planning formats
• Use the A4 pages to enlarge to A3 to improve collaboration in whole group or small group modeled and guided writing sessions
• Or print as A4 for students writing
• Further you could select the pages you like and make a class book or an individual procedure writing book
• Procedure classroom display
• Procedure content outline for example, purpose, structure and grammar
• You get several display strips with words such as, procedure, goal, you will need, how step 1-6 plus blank step to add more steps of your own
• These above display strips also are found on their own A4 page so the class can investigate each step
• One page for class writing goal
• A page for each of the following; purpose for listening to a procedure, purpose for reading a procedure, purpose for writing a procedure
• Possible audiences for a procedure
• One page for each of the grammatical features mentioned in procedure content page at the beginning e.g. commands, action verbs, precise vocabulary, connectives to sequence time, adverbial phrases to outline time, manner and place
• Examples of procedures page
• Procedures we found at home
• 'Our how to make a book' front cover page for a book you could make in class
• Art activities that have steps like a procedure
• Examples of possible routines, items to write about for example, how to open a door, put sun cream on, make a paper airplane, line up and pack away, all basic procedures appropriate for all ages
• Action verbs in games, cooking and craft brainstorm pages for each
• 17 different frameworks for procedure and procedural recount writing experiences, these could all be for modeled, guided or independent work
• Your BLM file has some colour pictures where appropriate to accompany headings.
These text type writing BLM's files can also be purchased as bound books.