Fresh Start Text Types Chart
No.
Title
Reading Text
1
Fiction
2
The Thing from The
Black Planet
A Wolf Cub
Fiction
Writing
Deconstruction
Description of a
creature
First person recount
3
Big Malc
Fiction
‘Wanted’ poster
4
Hay Into Gold
5
Keeping A Cat
Fiction Rumplestiltskin
Non-fiction
Alternative version
Rumplestiltskin
Report - stick insects
6
Bill Bright’s Fishing
Trip
The Yellow Light
Fiction
Letter
Fiction
Poem
Fiction
Newspaper report
9
Baboons On The
Loose
Bart The Champ
Fiction
Newspaper report
10
Lorna
Fiction
Story continuation
11
A Bad Hair Day
Fiction
Letter of complaint
12
A Good Win For The
Red Shirts
A Player To Be
Proud Of
Cook And Enjoy
Newspaper
Report
Biography David
Beckham
Recipe
Instructions
Fiction
Greek myth
First person recount
7
8
13
14
15
16
18
Late
The Weaving
Contest
Celia Smith’s Quick
Goldfish Pie
Beep!
19
Spellbound
20
21
22
The Outlaws
Romeo And Juliet
Sunburst Teen
Magazine
How does it Feel to
be An Astronaut?
Raiders Of The Lost
17
23
24
Writing
Discursive text – pros
and cons of uniform
Picture strip based on text
read
Picture strip based on text
read
Picture strip based on text
read
Picture strip based on text
read
Picture strip based on text
read
Picture strip based on text
read
Picture strip based on text
read
Picture strip based on text
read
Picture strip based on text
read
Picture strip based on text
read
Picture strip based on text
read
Picture strip based on text
read
Picture strip based on text
read
Instructions: How to access
the internet
Letter of apology
Descriptive recount First
person
Recipe for disgusting
sandwiches
Discursive – pros and cons
of detentions
First person
recount/dialogue
Fiction
Fiction
Magazine
problem page
Non-fiction
Play script
Play script
Diary entry
Recount of events
Problem Page Letter –
problem/answer
Persuasive text
Diary entry
Continuation of recount
Write answer to page letter
Non-fiction Email
Letter of complaint
Recipe Humorous
Fiction
Biography
Recount – How to
make pancakes
Letter of apology
Descriptive recount –
First person
Recipe
Persuasive article for school
magazine
Letter of complaint
Shark
25
26
Jason’s Quest
New Boy
27
28
Kevin The Killer
Hamster
Il Bello
29
Emergency
30
Creature
31
Macbeth
32
The Invisible City
33
Penalty for Pirate
Execution
complaint
correspondence
Greek myth
First person
recount
Fiction
Account of Horse
Race
Non-fiction first
aid guidance
First person
recount
Fiction
Account Eruption of
Mount Vesuvius
Biography
Diary entry
Witness report
Diary entry
Witness report
Description of being
lost
Letter describing race
events
Fire policy
Description of being lost
Instructions
Instructions
Descriptive scene
setting
Newspaper report
Descriptive scene setting
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Continuation of letter
Fire policy for school
Newspaper report