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Focus Non-Fiction is a collection of stimulating non-fiction texts that has been put together to meet the non-fiction requirements of the National Curriculum and of the Framework for Teaching English. Texts have been carefully chosen to interest and to challenge Key Stage 3 students, and have been arranged into sections that match the National Curriculum writing triplets to: imagine, explore, entertain; inform, explain, describe; persuade, argue, advise; analyse, review, comment. Each section contains a range of different texts, including autobiography, magazine articles, reviews, advertisements and reports. Also provided are routes through the sections to allow students to compare and contrast features of texts written for different purposes. Activities at the end of each section help students to understand the stylistic conventions of non-fiction text types and to use the texts in this collection as models for their own writing.