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Exploring How Texts Work: Second edition

This 30th anniversary edition of a PETAA classic investigates how texts work to achieve their purposes. We venture beyond the surface, into the structure and language features of different genres, and explore how they make meaning. Our quest is to find useful ways of talking about language in the classroom and to use this common understanding to compose effective texts. The first edition made a substantial impact on literacy teaching when published in 1990 and it remains a relevant and practical teaching resource today.

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A Closer Look at Spelling in the Primary Classroom

Grace Oakley & Janet Fellowes

A Literature Companion for Teachers 2nd Edition

Lorraine McDonald

A New Grammar Companion

Beverly Derewianka

Assessment into Practice

Edited by Heather Fehring

Becoming a Meaning Maker

Christine Edwards-Groves & Christina Davidson

Beyond the Script, Take 3

Robyn Ewing, et al

Classrooms of Possibility

Jennifer Hammond & Jenny Miller (editors)

Classroom Talk

Christine Edwards-Groves, et al

Conversations about Texts 1: Literary texts

Joanne Rossbridge & Kathy Rushton

Conversations About Texts 2: Factual Texts

Joanne Rossbridge & Kathy Rushton

Designing Learning for Diverse Classrooms

Paul Dufficy

Donald Graves in Australia

Editor R D Walsh

Exploring How Texts Work

Beverly Derewianka

Grammar and Meaning (New Edition)

Sally Humphrey, et al

Inspiring Writing in Primary Schools Liz Chamberlain

Learning to Learn in a Second Language

Pauline Gibbons

Literacy in the Middle Years

Anne-Marie Morgan, et al

Multimodal Literacy: Researching Classroom Practice

Maureen Walsh

Picture Books and Beyond

Kerry Mallan (editor)

Put it in Writing: Context, Text and Language

Joanne Rossbridge & Kathy Rushton

Reading Under the Covers

Alyson Simpson

Standing on a Book

Stories from Classrooms around Australia

Strategies for Writing Success

Marcelle Holliday

Strategies for Reading Success

Marcelle Holliday

Talking the Talk

Jones, Simpson and Thwaite (Editors)

Teaching English Language Learners

Margery Hertzberg

Teaching with Intent

Bonwyn Parkin and Helen Harper

Teaching with Intent 2

Bonwyn Parkin and Helen Harper

Tell Me Your Story

Janet Dutton, et al

Text Next

Annah Healy & Eileen Honan (editors)

Thinking Through New Literacies

Eileen Honan (editor)

The Alphabetic Principle and Beyond

Robyn Cox, Susan Feez & Lorraine Beveridge (editors)

The Shape of Text To Come

Jon Callow

Turn-around Pedagogies

Barbara Comber & Barbara Kamler (editors)

Where do I Start?

Robyn Wild

Writing {Better} Stories

Vivienne Nicoll-Hatton

Writing like a Writer

Libby Gleeson

Writing the Future

Kaye Lowe

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