Building the context or field - understanding the role of texts in our culture and building shared understanding of the topic.
Modelling the text (or deconstruction) - the use of mentor or model texts to focus explicitly on the structure and the language of the text, how language choices work to shape meaning, and to build a metalanguage.
Guided practice (or joint construction) - teachers and students jointly constructing a text.
Independent construction – students’ independent writing or approximation of the genre.
(Derewianka & Jones, 2016; Humphrey, 2017; Humphrey & Feez, 2016).
Suggested activities or tasks within each stage of the teaching and learning cycle are provided below. These are not necessarily a sequence of activities, rather a range of possibilities to be included at varying points as appropriate in the development of the unit across several weeks.