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Show, Don't Tell

Text Show, Don't Tell

TLF ID M021332

This resource for students explains the importance, when writing narratives, of showing your reader rather than telling, with an example, ways of achieving this, and some follow-up activities

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Educational details

Year level

8; 9

Topics Text structure Creating texts Literary devices Word meanings Characters (Narratives) Plots (Stories) Editing Writing skills Language conventions Imaginative texts Settings (Narratives)
Learning area
  • English

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Contributors
  • Contributor
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: Brett Lamb
  • Organization: Brett Lamb
  • URL: http://lessonbucket.com
  • Publisher
  • Name: Brett Lamb
  • Organization: Brett Lamb
  • Description: Publisher
  • URL: http://lessonbucket.com
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
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Learning Resource Type
  • Text
Rights
  • © Brett Lamb. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.