
This rich and innovative full-colour workbook comprises skills-based units that address all strands of the Australian Curriculum - Language, Literature and Literacy.
Written by some of Australia’s leading authors, this lively, student-friendly book provides eighteen skills-based units covering a wide range of popular topics.
Key features:
- builds comprehension strategies, spelling and vocabulary development, and an understanding of grammar and language
- focuses on the concepts of culture, identity and context throughout
- provides high-interest literary, non-literary and media texts for appreciation, understanding and analysis
- explores the structures and language features of all kinds of texts, including persuasive and visual texts
- offers opportunities for students to apply their skills to create their own written, spoken and multimodal texts
- addresses the cross-curriculum priorities outlined in the curriculum.
Contents
- Culture and identity
- Visual texts
- Aboriginal perspectives
- Points of view
- Advertising
- Improve your spelling
- Breaking news
- Exploring stories
- Autobiography
- The novel
- The language of poetry
- The power of words
- Humour
- Science fiction
- Let’s punctuate
- Drama
- Speaking out
- Using paragraphs
*An earlier version of this title used to include digital components. As of January 2021, these digital components are no longer available.
Year Level | Year 8 |
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Date of Publication | 2011 |
ISBN | 9781420229899 |
Subject | English |
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