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

About the authors

How to use this book

Using Digital Technology for English skills

Acknowledgements

LANGUAGE

PART 1 Grammar, punctuation, spelling and vocabulary

Unit 1 Grammar: parts of speech

Unit 2 Grammar: common errors

Unit 3 Spelling: homophones

Unit 4 Spelling: silent letters

Unit 5 Spelling: prefixes

Unit 6 Spelling: suffixes

Unit 7 Punctuation

Unit 8 Vocabulary: jobs and careers

Unit 9 Vocabulary: science and mathematic

Unit 10 Vocabulary: countries and people

LITERACY

PART 2 Reading and comprehension

Unit 11 Reading a dictionary and thesaurus

Unit 12 Reading poetry

Unit 13 Reading descriptions

Unit 14 Reading instructions

Unit 15 Reading information texts: newspaper articles

Unit 16 Reading information texts: magazine articles

Unit 17 Reading arguments

Unit 18 Reading essays

Unit 19 Reading visual texts: cartoons

Unit 20 Reading visual texts: advertisements

Unit 21 Reading visual texts: graphic novels

Unit 22 Reading visual texts: film

Unit 23 Reading values and beliefs

PART 3 Writing and editing

Unit 24 Writing summaries

Unit 25 Writing poetry

Unit 26 Descriptive writing

Unit 27 Instructional writing

Unit 28 Writing news and information

Unit 29 Writing magazine articles

Unit 30 Writing advertisements

Unit 31 Persuasive writing

Unit 32 Writing arguments

Unit 33 Writing presentations

Unit 34 Writing essays

Unit 35 Evaluative writing

Unit 36 Proofreading

Unit 37 Referencing

Glossary