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Dynamic English Skills for the Australian Curriculum: A multilevel approach Year 8

Dynamic English Skills for the Australian Curriculum: A multilevel approach Year 8
AUTHOR(S):
Sonya Stoneman / Anne-Marie Brownhill / Deborah Simpson / Alison Rucco
REGION:
Australia
LEVELS:
Year 8
SUBJECT AREA:
English / Australian Curriculum
ISBN:
9781108734769
PUBLICATION DATE:
22/11/2016
Price:   AUD $24.95
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Dynamic English Skills for the Australian Curriculum is a unique interactive online resource that combines the teaching content of the popular skills-based Essential English Skills for the Australian Curriculum Second Edition with interactive activities, a range of rich digital learning experiences and a powerful Learning Management System.

Dynamic English Skills for the Australian Curriculum offers:

  • explicit teaching pages with detailed explanations of key concepts that make use of visual learning techniques to support independent learning in the classroom or at home.
  • a multilevel approach to key language and literacy skills, caters to the different learning abilities in the classroom and assists teachers in matching tasks to the skill of their students.
  • auto-marked questions that allow students and their teachers to check their learning as they progress through the course. Open-ended teacher-marked questions are also included for areas where higher-order thinking is required (suggested answers included in the Teacher Edition).
  • fully integrated offline and online tasks, plus Scorcher, that encourage students to further extend their own language and literacy development.
  • a powerful Learning Management System for teachers that combines task management tools, a test generator, readymade tests and comprehensive student and whole-class reporting tools.

www.cambridge.edu.au/dynamicenglish

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About the authors

How to use this book

Using Digital Technology for English skills

Acknowledgements

LANGUAGE

PART 1 Grammar and punctuation

Unit 1 Nouns and articles

Unit 2 Pronouns

Unit 3 Verbs and verb tenses

Unit 4 Adjectives

Unit 5 Adverbs and adverbial phrases

Unit 6 Sentences

Unit 7 Clauses

Unit 8 Active and passive voice

Unit 9 Punctuation

Unit 10 More about punctuation

PART 2 Spelling

Unit 11 Word origins

Unit 12 Prefixes

Unit 13 Suffixes

Unit 14 Adding -or, -er and –ar

Unit 15 Words ending in -ible and -able

Unit 16 Words ending in -ery, -ary and -ory

Unit 17 Words ending in -and, -ance, -ent, -ence and -ense

Unit 18 Is it -tion or -sion?

Unit 19 Adding -ous and -ious

Unit 20 Words ending in -l and -ll

Unit 21 Words ending in -r and -rr

Unit 22 Silent letters

PART 3 Vocabulary

Unit 23 Synomyns and autonyms

Unit 24 The English lexicon

Unit 25 Building a vocabulary for comparing and contrasting

Unit 26 Famous phrases and proverbs

LITERACY

PART 4 Reading, writing and comprehension

Unit 27 Images and diagrams

Unit 28 Implications

Unit 29 Deductions

Unit 30 Analysis and synthesis

Unit 31 Argument

Unit 32 Bias

Unit 33 Values and viewpoints in writing

Unit 34 Persuasive language techniques

Unit 35 Form or text type

Unit 36 Genre

Unit 37 Style

PART 5 Writing and editing

Unit 38 Grammar in use

Unit 39 Varying sentences and writing

Unit 40 Proofreading

Unit 41 Formatting and publishing using ICT

Unit 42 Evaluating texts

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Dynamic English Skills for the Australian Curriculum is a unique interactive online resource that combines the teaching content of the popular skills-based Essential English Skills for the Australian Curriculum Second Edition with interactive activities, a range of rich digital learning experiences and a powerful Learning Management System.

www.cambridge.edu.au/dynamicenglish

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Sonya Stoneman

Sonya Stoneman is an experienced author of English texts and former English teacher who specialised for 14 years in Learning Support and the application of systematic phonics teaching to literacy problems.

Anne-Marie Brownhill

Anne-Marie Brownhill is an experienced teacher who is passionate about English and using technology in the classroom. She currently teaches English and Drama at Melbourne High School. Anne-Marie has been part of the Essential English Skills author team since 2011 and in 2012 travelled to London as part of an action research team for the International Boys’ Schools Coalition. When she is not teaching and writing she sings with the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic.

Deborah Simpson

Deborah Simpson has many years experience teaching in NSW schools. She has been English Head of Department, taught Secondary English method to pre-service teachers in NSW universities and been involved in curriculum and syllabus development. She currently teaches English at Loreto Kirribilli.

Alison Rucco

Alison Rucco has decades of teaching experience in both state and private schools, teaching English at all levels from primary to Year 12. She is also a long-time marker of Year 12 and Australia-wide standardised tests, and is a highly experienced author of English texts.

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