Nelson Literacy Directions non-fiction texts are full of fascinating, high-interest and sometimes quirky information supporting content from the Australian Curriculum: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science, Health and Physical Education and Technologies. The non-fiction texts feature a wide variety of visual elements, including stunning illustrations and photography, captions, headings, labels, graphs, lists and fact boxes. Each text includes a chapter providing an exemplary model of one of the nine key text types ‘ recount, description, information report, narrative, procedure, exposition, explanation, discussion and response.