Feedback from secondary school English teachers all around Australia tells us that schools require teaching resources to assist students with low literacy skills to fully participate in the curriculum. Written by experienced English teachers, this series includes features that research indicates will help students to develop literacy skills, including short and achievable activity types, explicit instructions and explanations, mature-look pages and of course the opportunity to complete class work using technology.
Each of the 10 units in these books contain an example of a text type with ten associated interactive activity work sheets. These include pre and post reading tasks and work sheets that focus on developing students' phonological, visual, morphemic and etymological knowledge. The remaining work sheets explore and reinforce punctuation, grammar and writing skills.
Each of the text type examples is displayed onscreen, and are fully illustrated and set in the style that the text type would appear in everyday situations.
Content includes:
DYI gadgets newspaper article
Earth Hour report
Television then and now magazine article
The perfect job magazine column
Auslan, a silent language feature article
Girls and gaming First person narrative
How to curl procedural text
Graffiti art interview
Unusual pets short story
Summer holidays poetry
Topic includes:
Levels One to Four primary school literacy content is integrated into literacy activities that will suit the interests of year 710 secondary school students.
Pre-reading introducing key words, difficult words or language
Post-reading comprehension tasks to test understanding
Phonological knowledge alternative spellings of phonemes, plus more!
Visual knowledge word families, rhyme, silent letters, plus more!
Morphemic knowledge plural noun endings s, ies and es in sentences, plus more!
Etymological knowledge the prefixes cent, octo and dec, plus more!
Punctuation titles, numbers and apostrophes for possession, plus more!
Grammar conjunctions, possessive adjectives and pronouns, plus more!
Writing creating a television schedule and writing questions for an interview, plus more!
The folder contains:
Colour screenshots of the 10 unit text examples
An illustrated glossary
Photocopiable student work sheets
The CD-ROM contains:
Interactive PDF work sheets for IWBs and laptops
Photocopiable versions of work sheets
An illustrated glossary
View Australian Curriculum correlation chart
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Cameron Ling is a teacher and author, who has taught English in various overseas countries as well as Australia. He is also a qualified teacher of Spanish and Humanities. Cameron has taught and tutored both adults and high school students. Recently he has worked at a government high school for new migrants, teaching English as a Second Language through an integrated curriculum. A passionate and creative writer, Cameron has had poetry, essays and articles published. He has also completed two novels of literary fiction that he hopes to have published in the near future.
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