Manuals

Purchased your Tool Kit prior to January 2021?

The new Tool Kit is so much bigger and better!

• Narrative Writing Manual – completely rewritten with four times the content of your old manual!
• Persuasive Writing Manual – completely rewritten with three times the content of your old manual!
• Informative Writing Manual – extended and improved, with 40% more content than your current version
• Beginner Writers Manual – extended and improved, with 60% more content than your current Early Years Manual, which it’s been renamed from.

Every manual now offers:

• More extensive theory – dive deep into the core techniques of each Step.
• Easier to use! With each chapter organised by Step, it’s easier to find what you need quickly.
• More student and annotated exemplars.
• Putting It All Together chapter, including a marking guide and marked exemplars.
• Taking it further – learn how to extend your students.
• Differentiated topics for every Step.
• Curriculum matrix linking every activity to the English curriculum descriptors.
• Fresh new look.
• Downloadable, user-friendly digital files for your whole school.

Purchased your Tool Kit between January 2021 and May 2022?

There is so much new and great content in the new Tool Kit, we don’t think you’ll be disappointed. Here’s what’s changed from what you’ve purchased:

• Narrative Writing Manual – completely rewritten with four times the content of your old manual!
• Persuasive Writing Manual – rebranded with a fresh new look, but the content hasn’t changed from what you had before
• Informative Writing Manual – extended and improved, with 40% more content than your current version
• Beginner Writers Manual – extended and improved, with 60% more content than your current Early Years Manual, which it’s been renamed from.

With so much new content and more value, the new Tool Kit will become your school’s favourite teaching manuals! And we have a very special offer available to all schools who have purchased a Tool Kit since 2020 – check your inbox for your offer, and if you can’t find it, give us a call!

But if your budget is tight, the manual that we think will make the biggest improvement to your existing Tool Kit is the new Narrative Writing Manual. Structured in easy-to-follow Step-based chapters, you’ll gain so much more theory, exemplars, activities and more.

Great question!

Both:

• provide you (and your school if you sign up for a school subscription) with everything you need to learn, teach, apply and assess the Seven Steps
• contain the highest quality resources for teaching writing
• offer you a starting point to learn the Seven Steps, but are also packed full of teaching resources if you’ve attended a workshop and are ready to roll it out
• cross-reference each other, so that they can be used together as a great hybrid teaching tool or independently
• contain almost entirely exclusive content, so you won’t be doubling up on activities, topics or resources.

So we recommend, if budget limits you to choosing just one, think about what works best for you or your school:

• If you and your colleagues are digitally savvy and like the ability to use search fields to find what you’re looking for, like to favourite resources to come back to them and want to access training videos, then Teacher Hub is the best online resource you’ll find.
• If you and your colleagues like to have a physical library of resources to flip through and reference over and over again, then the Seven Steps Tool Kit contains the best teaching manuals available for writing. (Note that your Tool Kit does include a digital copy (PDF) that you can download and load onto your intranet.)

Most schools contain a mix of digitally-savvy teachers and the more traditional print-lovers, so a combination of the two will meet everyone’s needs, provide a great hybrid teaching tool and mean you won’t run out of activities, ideas and inspiration.

Purchase them together and save at least 20% off the Tool Kit! Just add a Tool Kit to your cart, and you’ll find the option to upgrade to add in Teacher Hub.

Your Seven Steps Tool Kit or manual purchase includes a digital file(s) with a licence to photocopy and/or load the file to your intranet.

If you purchase any of our new manuals or Tool Kits with our new logo (which only says Seven Steps), you can access your digital file by:

• logging into Teacher Hub (you will automatically receive a free Starter membership when you purchase anything from the Seven Steps!)
• going to the Manuals page (click on the Manuals tile near the top of the page or click on the hamburger menu)
• finding the manual you purchased along the top of the screen under Purchased Product
• clicking on Download PDF.

If you are part of a school, everyone in your school will have this tile in their Teacher Hub login and will be able to access the download. If a teacher doesn’t have access, simply log into Teacher Hub and add them to your school or give us a call on 03 9521 8439 and we can help.

If you purchase or have previously purchased any of our manuals or Tool Kits with our old logo (which says Seven Steps to Writing Success), your manual will have included a USB with your digital file(s).

Send us an email ([email protected]) or give us a call on 03 9521 8439 and we’ll be happy to help.

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Workshop participants – save 20%

If you order within two weeks of attending Workshop One or Workshop One (Online), you’ll save at least 20% off your Tool Kit! You can find the coupon code in the emails you received before and after the event, or in the brochure inside your workshop pack.

Bundle with Teacher Hub and save up to 40%!

Bundle a Teacher Hub School Subscription with a Seven Steps Tool Kit and save at least 20% (over 40% if you’ve recently attended training!). Order the bundle above, or contact our office to give you a hand on (03) 9521 8439.

Buy multiple Tool Kits and save

If you buy more than one Tool Kit in the same order, you will save 40% off the second and subsequent Tool Kits. You don’t need a coupon for this – simply add them to your cart and the discount will be applied automatically.

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If you buy more than one of the same manual in an order, you will save 20% off the second and subsequent manuals. You don’t need a coupon for this – simply add them to your cart and the discount will be applied automatically.

We are also selling our first edition manuals for Narrative, Informative and Early Years at a significant discount, while stocks last.

It is important to us that you are delighted with your Seven Steps purchase! We therefore offer a money-back guarantee on almost all products and services.

If you’re not happy with your Seven Steps product, please email or call us within 30 days of purchase. If we are unable to resolve the issue or further assist you, we will process a refund upon timely receipt of the unopened products. Refunds will be processed promptly and payment made by the same method that you used to make the order.

All refunds are made in accordance with the Australian Consumer Protection Act and at the discretion of Seven Steps to Writing Success. Our full terms and conditions can be found here.

Expected standard delivery across Australia is within three weeks from the date of order. Express delivery is usually within one week from the date of order, particularly if you are in or close to a capital city.

Sometimes we find the resources have been delivered but they’re held up in your school’s main office, so you may want to check there to be sure they haven’t already arrived!

If your order still hasn’t been delivered after three weeks, please give our office a call on (03) 9521 8439 so we can figure out what’s gone wrong.

We know CRTs often have to pay for their own teaching resources, without any support from schools. So we like to try to help where we can. Contact our office on (03) 9521 8439 or email [email protected] and we can chat!

Fill out our ‘contact us form on our website here and one of our friendly Steven Steps team members will be in contact.

Alternatively, you can contact our office on (03) 9521 8439 or email [email protected].