English Is ... for the Australian Curriculum Year 9 & 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, Showme, Let me do it process.
• Ready to Read prepares less able readers to engage with the texts.
• Asian and Indigenous texts are featured along with 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.
• Wide variety of assessment options are available at the end of every unit with rubrics to guide students.

Next generation teaching and learning

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
• links to selected quests in Knowledge Quest: English 2 online game for subscribers to this separate resource

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.