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English Is ... English for the Australian Curriculum Year 7 & eBookPLUS

English Is ... English for the Australian Curriculum Year 7 & eBookPLUS

by Annette MoultLuke Jackson Richard Yaxley and others
Paperback
Publication Date: 26/07/2012

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English is... English for the Australian Curriculum Year 7 with eBookPLUS

The English is... series uses a creative approach to learning to inspire students to embrace the English language in all its variations and develop key skills in reading, understanding and creating. It includes structured inquiry into the big ideas or concepts that support English, underpinned by the skills needed for literate citizenship.

KEY FEATURES

* Full coverage of the Australian Curriculum: English content descriptions allows students to achieve year level standards

* The text is always at the centre of the learning

* Differentiated activities provide all students with an entry point to the texts through a Getting started, Working through and Going further grading

* Sub-unit structure allows for a dip-in, dip-out approach

* Wordsmiths or mini-workshops drill down to teach key skills in a Tell me, Show me, Let me do it process * Ready to Read prepares less able readers to engage with the texts

* Asian and Indigenous texts are featured along with classic, world, Australian and contemporary texts

* 'Need to know' explains key terms at point of need so that students learn English's metalanguage

* Language, Literature and Literacy links connect to the Australian Curriculum content descriptions

* Wide variety of assessment options at the end of every unit with rubrics to guide students.

FLEXISAVER KEY FEATURES

* 30% cost saving

* Flexible format enables insertion of students and teacher notes throughout

* Lightweight option of only bringing the chapters required to school English is... English for the Australian Curriculum Year 7 Flexisaver and eBookPLUS is a shrink-wrapped, looseleaf student textbook a student binder accompanied by the eBookPLUS. Jacaranda FlexiSavers provide students with a flexible, cost-saving alternative to the student textbook on your booklist. FlexiSavers are priced at 70% of the RRP of a standard textbook. >

eBookPLUS resources include:

* Access from any digital device PC/MAC/iPad/Android Tablet.

* Worksheets - Word documents designed for easy customisation and editing.

* Interactivities and games to reinforce and enhance student learning.

* eLessons - engaging video clips and supporting material.

* Weblinks to relevant support material on the internet.

* ProjectsPLUS - unique ICT-based projects that provide opportunities for students to demonstrate creativity, thinking skills and teamwork.

ISBN:
9781742467702
9781742467702
Category:
Educational: English language & literacy
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
26-07-2012
Publisher:
John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
248
Weight:
0.68kg
Luke Jackson

Luke C. Jackson is a teacher, and the author of novels, games, and films. He and his wife, Kelly, began their own IVF journey in 2011, and are now parents of two daughters.

Richard Yaxley

Richard Yaxley has written novels for adults and young adults, plays, poetry and contributed to many textbooks.

His first novel, The Rose Leopard, was published by University of Queensland Press in 2003. Drink The Air, a verse novel, won the 2010 Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction, and Joyous and Moonbeam (Omnibus 2013) was shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier’s Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction.

Other novels include Bloodlines (Strictly Literary 2009) and Spring Rain (2014), both of which were published on-line.

He has written or co-written over twenty books for the classroom, including two collections of short stories and a collection of plays, and has been a recipient of an Australia Council for the Arts Literature Board Grant and, in 2011, a Medal in the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to education, literature and performing arts.

In April 2015 he completed a May Gibbs Trust Creative Writing Fellowship in Canberra, the result of which was a novel for young adults entitled This Is My Song, to be published by Scholastic early in 2017.

Richard was also the 2016 recipient of the Walter Stone Award for Life Writing (FAW NSW) for Homecoming, a narrative memoir of his great-uncle who landed at Gallipoli on April 25th, 2015. Richard lives in Brisbane, Australia.

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