PM Writing has been specifically developed for use in the early years of schooling. The PM Writing Teachers’ Resource Books have been developed to explicitly teach writing skills and knowledge across a range of student abilities in the first three years of schooling. The specific learning tasks included in the program make it appropriate for the whole class, small-group or individual teaching and learning sessions.

Each Teachers’ Resource Book contains ‘ comprehensive lesson plans based on the exemplars for teaching and writing, levelled exemplar texts, student books and Interactive writing pro formas ’ theme-based lesson plans ‘ listening and speaking activities ’ writing assessment guidelines ‘ an analysis of writing samples across the three key stages of early writing development ’ early, developing and consolidating/extending ‘ scope and sequence of learning outcomes in the first three years of school ’ links to other books within the PM collection.