Ignite students' passion to inform
Can you imagine your students handing in reports with attention-grabbing insights and vivid descriptions, using facts to paint exquisite pictures with words?
All unique, all engaging.
Informative writing doesn’t need to be boring!
Informative writing encompasses a wide array of forms, from news articles to reports, documentary scripts and factual descriptions.
What’s great news for students is that the Seven Steps techniques can be applied to any type of informative text!
By breaking informative writing down into chunks and practising the Seven Steps through simple, fun and engaging activities your students will learn how to write informative texts that informs and engages their audiences.
From dull statements to painting a picture with words.
Here’s an example of how Step 5: Show, Don’t Tell can transform a student’s informative text.
Before
Bears stand at the top of waterfalls and catch the salmon leaping upstream.
Notice how the ‘before’ simply TELLS the reader about bears while the ‘after’ SHOWS what hunting is really like.
After
The bear stands at the top of the waterfall, his eyes watching a flash of silver in the pool below. It is a female salmon, struggling to swim upstream to lay her eggs. She has swum for two days now, heavy with eggs and she is exhausted, but this is the last waterfall.
She swims below, gathering her strength for the last great leap. The bear waits patiently. He can afford to be patient, he is standing at the narrowest part of the waterfall, he knows where the fish will come…
It's time to have fun with facts
Everything you need to transform your students’ informative writing… in the way that suits you best!
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Theory videos you can watch and share with your class, expert interviews about how professionals use the Seven Steps techniques in real life and core downloadable resources to help you model, teach and practise each Step with students.
Expert Insight Interview
Step 2: Sizzling Start
Mark Greenwood (Author)
Here’s just one example of the expert insight videos available on Seven Steps Online. Listen to Mark, renowned children’s book author, talking about the importance of finding a Sizzling Start when writing informative picture books.
Expert Insight Interview
Step 2: Sizzling Start
Mark Greenwood (Author)
Here’s just one example of the expert insight videos available on Seven Steps Online. Listen to Mark, renowned children’s book author, talking about the importance of finding a Sizzling Start when writing informative picture books.
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Every text type covered
Learn and refresh yourself on the Seven Steps theory for narrative, persuasive and informative texts, whenever you need. Find related classroom PowerPoints, lesson plans or samples in a flash!
Every text type covered
Learn and refresh yourself on the Seven Steps theory for narrative, persuasive and informative texts, whenever you need. Find related classroom PowerPoints, lesson plans or samples in a flash!
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During the trial you will gain access to 35 Step 2: Sizzling Starts classroom resources covering Informative, Narrative and Persuasive texts.
Get started with theory training videos and writing exemplars, then implement the Seven Steps with fun picture writing prompts, lesson plans and classroom PowerPoints.
Informative Writing Manual
Your road map to transforming student writing
Help your students become great informative writers
With the help of the Seven Steps Writing Manual, you can inspire your students and show them how to write engaging science reports or jaw-dropping factual recounts. Ignite your students’ passion and excitement for discovering the world around us and teach them how to write about it in an engaging way.
Resources to save you time
Reclaim your time with practical resources at your fingertips so you can quickly find the perfect Action Activity or template for your desired learning outcome.
Build a strategy for informative writing success with the Eight-Week Starter Plan and transform your classroom into a hive of activity with students buzzing around sharing facts, excitedly working together and writing with enjoyment.
Resources to save you time
Reclaim your time with practical resources at your fingertips so you can quickly find the perfect Action Activity or template for your desired learning outcome.
Build a strategy for informative writing success with the Eight-Week Starter Plan and transform your classroom into a hive of activity with students buzzing around sharing facts, excitedly working together and writing with enjoyment.
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Deconstruct writing techniques with student examples and exemplars, easily scaffolded Action Activities to suit each child and watch student modelling videos, so you can see how it works in a real classroom!
Informative Writing Manual
Use the power of the Seven Steps to help your students become great informative writers.
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