Your best text types resource, from the lecturer theatre to the classroom

• References to the Australian Curriculum
• Increased focus on grammar, multiliteracies, literacy practices and teaching focuses at whole text, paragraph, clause, sentence, word group and word level
• More emphasis on multiliteracies, critical literacy and ICT, and how these look in classroom practice
• ICT margin notes suggesting how to use technology to teach text types
• All new sample units at the end of chapters 6 to 16. These
• include multiple sequences that enable teachers to adapt teaching focuses to specific teaching purposes and student needs across many year levels 
• are developed around the threads within specific sub-strands of the Australian Curriculum: English rather than narrow year-level content descriptions, thus enabling teachers to tailor their instruction to individual students and plot student learning
• encourage engagement with a variety of text formats, from paper-based to multimodal 
• demonstrate the interrelatedness of speaking and listening, reading and viewing, and writing.
• More on programming and planning, including suggestions for how to use the Australian Curriculum: English for planning in both primary and secondary contexts, how to link assessment to teaching, and how to support students as they write.