Downloadable pdf: Achieve! Interactive Instant Lessons - English Book 4

Written by experienced English teachers, Achieve! Interactive Instant Lessons - English Book 4 bridges the gap for those students who missed literacy and language basics during primary school. Literacy skills are developed through the examination of 10 selected text types and associated interactive activities. With explicit instructions and the opportunity to complete classwork using technology, students will feel confident completing the activities on the mature-look pages.

Each text type displayed onscreen is fully illustrated and set in the style as it would appear in the real world:

• Smartphone and computer apps – an article
• Changes in the neighbourhood – a literary short story
• Dear mum – a letter from Kathmandu
• Beyond embarrassed – a diary entry
• Junk food in school – an email
• Young celebrities – a Twitter conversation
• Profile of a mountain bike rider – a magazine interview
• Catwalk sensation – a magazine article
• Your beautiful smile – an epitaph poem
• Using EFTPOS – procedural text

The folder contains:

• Colour screenshots of the 10 unit text types
• An illustrated glossary
• Photocopiable student worksheets

The CD-ROM contains:

• Interactive PDF worksheets for IWBs and laptops
• Photocopiable versions of worksheets
• An illustrated glossary

Activities integrate Levels 1–4 primary literacy content with relevant text types to suit the interests of Years 7–10 secondary school students. Activities include:

• Pre-reading – introducing key words, difficult words or difficult language
• Post-reading – comprehension tasks to test understanding
• Phonological knowledge – revision of silent letters and phonemes, plus more!
• Visual knowledge – building words and unjumbling words, plus more!
• Morphemic knowledge – forming verbs from adjectives and nouns from verbs, plus more!
• Etymological knowledge – onomatopoeia and root words, plus more!
• Spelling basics – international words and masculine and feminine words, plus more!
• Punctuation – dialogue and quotation marks, plus more!
• Grammar – active or passive voice and who or whom, plus more!
• Writing – conducting a case study and writing instructional text, plus more!

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Liz Flaherty is a children’s author and teacher with a Bachelor of Education in School Librarianship. She writes fiction as well as non-fiction, and has authored more than 50 books published for children. Liz is also the author of Achieve! English – Text Types Persuasive 1.