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 ‘ PM Writing Interactive Writing Pro Formas (on USB) ’ featuring scaffolded pro formas for each of the key text types, ideal for whole-class and small-group use on interactive whiteboards and data projectors ‘ PM Writing Lesson Planner ’ allowing teachers to organise lesson plans and assign small-group reading and writing tasks to students ‘ PM Writing Teaching in Practise ’ featuring indexed professional development videos that demonstrate teaching strategies for whole-class modelled and small-group guided writing sessions.