Model Texts

Many teachers will be familiar with the use of model texts in the teaching and learning cycle (Derewianka 2020b). Model texts are introduced to the class as good examples of the writing task and the teacher explicitly points out text structure, paragraph structure and the grammatical features to be taught.

Please note, for the purposes of this website, PETAA has differentiated between model and mentor texts. We have typically interpreted mentor texts as published, longer texts (e.g. picture books, chapter books, information texts, etc.) and model texts as those either created by the teacher or student themselves, as exemplars, or shorter published texts, e.g. a short newspaper article, or report.