Text Generation

by Frances Gregory, Jacquie Hills

Text Generation e-Resource Bank 1 is the ideal resource for teachers of students in their first year of secondary school, to help raise standards in writing, which are statistically lower than reading standards and targeted as a priority area in many schools. It covers all stages of the writing process and the objectives in the Framework for Teaching English. Chapters include creating characters, writing short stories, presenting information, writing evaluations, arguing your case, sensations in words, writing reviews, process writing, the language of marketing, and writing advice. Short and longer writing tasks throughout help prepare students for National Tests ('SATs'). Text Generation is realistic about how ICT is used in English lessons. For schools geared up and with computers in classrooms or access to a computer suite, there are model texts suitable for projection. At the click of a button, words and phrases are highlighted and an annotation automatically appears. Three layers of annotation for each text - for example, structure, language effects, grammar - allow the teacher thoroughly to analyze model texts with no preparation or specialist knowledge. For those with less access to hardware, the texts can be printed off, with the teacher having access to the annotations in printed form. All teachers with access to a single computer can use the hundreds of Resource Sheets - and they are all presented as Word files, so you can adapt them to the needs of all your students, or to fit with your scheme of work. Full teaching notes support the teacher through all stages - ideal for the less confident, NQTs, non-specialists, and supply teachers as well as the dedicated specialist. A unique feature - each chapter contains a 'real writer' feature describing how they use the teaching points in the chapter in their own job - DVD producers, advertising copywriters, PC game reviewers, top novelists, all aim to motivate students to write for real audiences and purposes

144 pages, Audio CD

First published July 24, 2003