Connecting Text and Grammar

Context - Text - Grammar is a comprehensive reference book that provides explicit connections between context, text and grammar - the three elements of a functional model of language.

It provides practical ideas which can be used for teaching the genres and grammar of writing in all areas of the school curriculum.

It features:

- an outline of a functional model of language

- the 'genre as process' model of teaching and learning writing

- an examination of the key genres of writing: describing, explaining, instructing, arguing and narrating

- practical ideas for the classroom on teaching grammar and text in context

- the structure and grammar of writing using examples of students' work throughout

- a comprehensive glossary of formal (traditional) and functional grammar terms