English is ... for the Australian Curriculum Year 10 & eBookPLUS

The English is ... series offers an exciting and authoritative approach to the Australian Curriculum: English.

Each unit is structured to inquire into the ‘big ideas’ or concepts that underpin English, leading students through a set of differentiated activities towards the knowledge, understanding and skills that will create literate citizens of the twenty-first century.

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.
• Focus on skills prepares students for the demands of senior secondary English.
• Asian and Indigenous texts are featured along with multimodal, classic, contemporary, world and Australian 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.
• A variety of assessment options are available at the end of every unit with rubrics to guide students.

 Your eBookPLUS features an electronic version of the textbook and includes:

• ‘You be the writer’ interactivities that provide students with hands-on opportunities to explore the craft of writing
• ProjectsPLUS — a unique project management system featuring a research forum, media and templates that enable students to collaborate while creating ICT-based projects
• editable worksheets for every chapter and weblinks to relevant English content online
• rubrics for all assessment tasks. eGuidePLUS provides teachers with:
• the full version of the student eBookPLUS
• answer versions of worksheets
• teachers’ notes on operating a differentiated classroom
• notes on assessment tasks
• Australian Curriculum: English coverage grids.