English

Cambridge Essential English for Queensland Second Edition comprehensively covers the revised Essential English syllabus to be implemented for Units 1&2 in 2025.

Connecting English is a fresh workbook series that supports your teaching of language and literacy, with a focus on applying these skills across key learning areas.

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Cambridge Essential English for Queensland invites students to communicate and interact with others effectively by studying language and texts that are relevant to their everyday lives. 

Students are encouraged to develop critical and creative thinking skills, as they consolidate essential vocabulary, spelling, punctuation and grammar skills and prepare for the common internal assessment.

Watch our recent webinar with author Julie Arnold on making assessment work for students and teachers in Essential English

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.

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The second edition of the popular Essential English Skills for the Australian Curriculum series has been updated for today’s students. Providing support for differentiated learning and featuring flexible ICT tasks that encourage language and literacy development, the series is ideal for both classroom use and homework.

Building language skills in context.

The Language Toolkit workbook series provides junior and middle secondary school students with the skills to explore the receptive and productive communication modes, enabling them to write, read, listen and speak across a range of contexts and for diverse audiences.

Each unit in the full-colour workbook is built around a different text type and supports learning across the language, literary and literature strands of the Australian Curriculum.

Anthologies of short, short stories.

The New Paper Series provides a variety of short, short stories and activities to introduce writing techniques and the skills of critical literacy to junior and middle secondary students.

A fully-balanced and integrated approach to language, literature, and literacy for the Australian Curriculum.

Written for the Australian Curriculum, English for the Australian Curriculum privileges student experience, creative engagement with texts, moments of reflection and opportunities for deep thinking. The series provides a fully balanced and integrated approach to the study of language, literature and literacy, by drawing on the best in English teaching practice around the country.

An innovative and contemporary student text that revitalises the study of the literary canon for middle secondary students.

Using student-friendly language and an engaging thematic approach to bring the canon to life, Canon Reloaded invites students to think about what we mean by the literary canon, why it is created and how it might be challenged. Students will encounter and respond to literary classics alongside contemporary texts and texts in translation, as they explore how themes such as journeys, love, death and the world we live in recur across a variety of historical moments and literary movements. 

An innovative and engaging student text for middle secondary media courses in Australia and beyond.

Media Reloaded has been developed by experienced media educators with a passion for understanding contemporary media and technology both in and out of the classroom. Media Reloaded offers teachers a flexible whole-course resource that supports syllabus outcomes in both Media and English for Years 9 and 10 across Australia.