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The News is an innovative collection of thirty factual texts. These books are presented in newspaper format, and are written with the directness and zest that you would expect to find in newspaper and magazine articles. The titles offer a wide range of different text types, from articles and interviews to letters and opinion pieces. 

The News Teacher Resource Book II has a full set of teaching notes for each of the titles in The News II. The teaching notes offer guided reading strategies, and ideas on how to use these books to teach spelling and writing. Blackline masters for each title support the suggested teaching ideas. An additional feature is a comprehensive assessment component, which allows teachers to see whether students are achieving the stated outcomes for each edition.