Click on the image below to download a list of techniques that can be used when teaching learners how to describe, narrate, inform, persuade and analyse.

The table is taken from a guideline created by the Institute of Education Sciences, based on their four recommendations for developing effective writers:
1) Provide learners with the opportunity to write daily
2) Teach learners how to create a variety of genres
3) Teach sentence fluency, handwriting, spelling and keyboard skills
4) Create an engaged community of writers.

Click the image above for the full practice guide.