Unit 1: We're watching you
Narrative: 1984
Unit 2: Nuclear fallout
Diary: A messij 2 the reeda
Unit 3: A desperate crime
Recount: Woman blamed for robberies
Unit 4: Dear Editor
Letter to the Editor: Stone the Crowe
Unit 5: 'Metabolise' to 'meteor'
Dictionary: The Pocket Oxford Dictionary
Unit 6: Active audience
Script: Greenheart and Dragon pollutant
Unit 7: Science Experiment
Procedure: Chemical activity in metals
Unit 8: Heavy metal
Explanation: Metals
Unit 9: A long way from home
Narrative: The Meteor
Unit 10: Border Control
Advertisement: Biosecurity New Zealand
Unit 11: A Modern Classic:
Book review: To Kill a Mockingbird
Unit 12: Survival of the Fittest
Description: No Mean Feat
Unit 13: Rural New Zealand
Poem: Milking before Dawn
Unit 14: The Middle Ages
Report: A Short History of the World
Unit 15: Another Continent
Map: South America
Unit 16: Living and Dying
Graph 2001 World birth and death rates
Unit 17: Compulsory counting
Explanation: NZ Census Guide Notes
Unit 18: Shame!
Narrative: Friday Night Out
Unit 19: Give Blood
Advertisement: Blood Service
Unit 20: Ring, ring
Argument: Mobile Mania
Unit 21: The Blood Machine
Instructions: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Unit 22: The woes of shopping
Discussion: plastic bags
Unit 23: Hunters, beware!
Cartoon: Duck Shooting
Unit 24: A new milkshake
Newspaper article: Spiked milk
Unit 25: Clever pets
Magazine article: How do pets know....
Unit 26: At the Gym
Timetable: Workout Timetable
Unit 27: An Awkward Situation
Narrative: The kissing game
Unit 28: Jet Careers
Interview: Fly Girl
Unit 29: A Hobbit's world
Film review: Tolkien's tower tops
Unit 30: Selling your skills
Interview: Job Hunting
Unit 31: Dear Principal
Letter of complaint: Student conduct
Unit 32: Chinese Tonight
Menu: The Wok Restuarant
Unit 33: A Family meal
Recipe: Spaghetti Bolognese
Unit 34: All that glitters is not gold
Speech: When is losing winning?
Record Sheets-Blackline masters
concise descriptions of the purpose, structure and features of text types
excellent models of a wide range of text types, including narratives, recounts, letters, film and book reviews, historical reports, advertisements, cartoons and poetry
real-life and cross-curricular literacy links
'open-ended' activities to encourage research and composition of a range of texts
optimal assessment to test and score levels of comprehension
a student assessment record sheet to record and moniter individual improvement is available.