How the Northern Lights Occur: an explanation on how the northern and southern lights occur.The Iditarod Sled Dog Race: a recount of a boy and his fathers time in Alaska to view a sled dog race. Text type: explanation and recount; Genre: non-fiction PM Writing 4 provides: writing goals that guide and support teachers and students instructional content for the conventions and composition of extending or advanced writing content that promotes writing to construct meaning across the curriculum in a variety of text forms teaching and learning approaches that promote choice and authenticity in writing for a variety of purposes and audiences. PM Writing is a complete learning, teaching and assessment package that develops the writing process throughout the primary phase. It provides explicit and systematic instruction in writing, incorporating shared, guided and independent writing and linked independent reading. #pm19-offer