This Reading to Write – Text Types guide is a comprehensive reference for junior and senior English students beginning their study of different text types. It introduces the four key text types - imaginative, discursive, persuasive, and reflective - and provides clear explanations of their purposes, structures, and language features.

The guide breaks down each form with key features and technique lists, showing students how to effectively employ figurative language, tone, structure, and rhetorical devices to shape meaning. It also clarifies how reflections connect the student’s creative process to their studied texts, reinforcing the link between reading and writing.

Teachers can use it to support explicit writing instruction, lesson delivery, writing workshops or as a classroom display - this guide provides the tools to help students craft sophisticated, purposeful texts that demonstrate control of language, structure, and meaning across multiple forms.