Downloadable pdf: Achieve! English - Proofreading and Editing

Achieve! English - Proofreading and Editing helps students correct and improve their writing through a range of engaging activities. With a focus on self- editing, activities cover spelling, capital letters, words with silent letters, adding ‘ing’ endings, using adjectives effectively, possessive apostrophes and editing layout. Included with this title is an editable CD-ROM of all pages in the book, as well as an illustrations file. These files can be easily edited to suit the individual needs of students and curriculum requirements.

Key features:

• Improves student's understanding of basic punctuation, grammar, tense and sentence construction
• Focus on self-editing, proofreading and analysing
• Features engaging activity worksheets and regular 'Correct it' and 'Improve it' tasks
• Includes editable CD-ROM versions of all pages and an illustrations file

About the series:

The Achieve! English series is for secondary students with low-level literacy skills who require modified classroom activities to fully participate in the curriculum.

Give your students the ability and confidence to work alongside their classmates on curriculum-related materials specifically tailored for their literacy needs. Titles in this series have a mature-look and include topics that will appeal to teenagers.

Key features:

• Strong emphasis on developing literacy skills with clear learning objectives
• Extensive Teacher’s Notes guide you through each unit ensuring your students will receive maximum success
• Included work sheets and starter activities are designed to meet curriculum requirements and contextualise content for students
• Extension ideas to reinforce main skills or knowledge, as well as ways to integrate technology into lesson planning
• Mature-look page layouts and illustrations
• Assessment sheets to record progress. These can be used for teacher reference only or together with students to involve them in the process of recording and reviewing their achievements

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Chrissie Michaels has more than 27 years of experience teaching in Australian secondary schools and the TAFE sector. She has taught a range of secondary subjects including History, English, ESL, French and Drama, as well as various tertiary subjects in the Diploma of Arts (Professional Writing & Editing). Chrissie has a diverse writing background. She was a consultant for Museum Victoria’s inaugural Big Box exhibition and is the well-regarded author of several novels for children and young adults. These include In Lonnie’s Shadow; On Board the Boussole; The Diary of Julienne Fulbert; and The R.O.N. She has numerous publications in the educational (and general) markets, including a co-authored series of primary English teacher resource texts and a number of titles in the Achieve! series for secondary teachers.