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Connecting English: A Skills Workbook Year 9 Teacher Resource Package

Connecting English: A Skills Workbook Year 9 Teacher Resource Package
AUTHOR(S):
Sue Bittner / Mel Dixon / Stewart McGowan / Belinda Renouf
REGION:
Australia
LEVELS:
Year 9
SUBJECT AREA:
English
ISBN:
9781108821988
PUBLICATION DATE:
17/11/2020
Price:   AUD $199.95
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About the authors

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.

Experienced teacher author team
The authors of these workbooks are practising and former teachers from across Australia. Their diverse range of teaching experience has enabled them to develop a range of effective exercises to introduce each skill and offer strong support to teachers.

Structure supports skills application
These new workbooks divide each unit into two student-friendly halves: understanding essential skills and applying these skills to real-world texts, supporting language and literacy across all key learning areas.

Wide range of samples with cross-curricular links
The sample texts chosen for activities are drawn from across the key learning areas to support students’ use of language and literacy, and interests across all subjects. These cross-curricular links are explicitly signposted in the workbooks.

Extensive teacher resources
Extensive teacher support material includes suggested responses to all exercises, PowerPoint documents for addressing more difficult concepts, and guidance for scaffolding information and making connections between units. Extra information is also provided on the text extracts and how they effectively demonstrate a skill.

More features:

Student-friendly design
The design of these workbooks provides ample room for students to write their answers for each activity. The format is student-friendly with short introductions to the skill being taught followed by a range of engaging activities, including a ‘Just for fun’ exercise at the end of each unit.

Discrete unit formatting
Each unit can be completed in a single lesson or used for homework. It comprises a double-page spread for understanding and practising a skill, followed by a double-page spread of exercises that involve applying the skill to different types of writing, including the option to use the text that the class is studying.

Great preparation for senior English
We are aware of the diverse needs of the senior syllabuses across Australia, ranging from vocational and EAL/D to the more demanding needs of literature courses. To this end, the Year 10 workbook has been designed to develop students’ skills in anticipation of the more rigorous demands of the senior syllabus, alongside revision of core concepts.

Flexible digital components
Each workbook is accompanied by a digital form-fill PDF version and an interactive quiz for each unit. The digital version is also available for separate purchase as a digital only option.

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The Teacher Resource Package offers valuable time-saving planning, classroom and assessment support for teachers.

Teacher support includes:

  • an overview for teachers of the resources and how to use them with their class, plus advice on programming, literacy and NAPLAN 
  • notes to support teaching for each unit 
  • PowerPoint overviews for each section 
  • solutions to all workbook activities 
  • curriculum grids for Australia, Victoria and Western Australia 
  • a tracking sheet for each unit to record student performance.
Teacher Resource Package
Teacher Resource Package
Downloadable teacher support materials are available for purchase separately as a unique 16-character code. Once purchased the resources can be downloaded through a Cambridge GO teacher account and stored on your school network.

The Teacher Resource Package can be accessed via Cambridge GO, using the enclosed 16-character access code. The code may be activated once only in one unique teacher account. Downloaded materials may be placed on your school network for use by other teachers at your school and are available through Cambridge GO for a period 5 years after activation.

The Interactive Textbook and Offline/PDF Textbook are not included in the Teacher Resource Package. These are available via the access code on the inside of your teacher copy of the student book or available for purchase separately from our online store or your Education bookseller.

We want to give you the opportunity to view sample pages of our titles so it's easier for you to make decisions.

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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Sue Bittner

Dr Sue Bittner has taught Senior English in Queensland for 41 years, with thirty years as Head of English at Coombabah State High School on the Gold Coast. She was a member of the English Review Panel for 12 years, and chaired the first critical literacy-focused English Syllabus Advisory Committee and the first English Extension (Literature) Syllabus Advisory Committee for the Queensland Studies Authority. She completed her PhD in 2008.

Mel Dixon

Mel Dixon is the Publications and Education Officer for ETANSW with many years’ experience as a Head of English. Mel is an experienced HSC marker who has presented on the HSC, led writing teams and written on HSC texts.

Stewart McGowan

Stewart McGowan is the Head Teacher of English at a school in Newcastle, NSW. He is a former Literacy Consultant whose qualifications include a Master of Theatre Arts, with an emphasis on the staging of Shakespeare and the semiotics of theatre spaces. As well as being an active member of the English Teachers Association, he is a playwright, director and performer.

Belinda Renouf

Belinda Renouf is an experienced English and EAL teacher who has taught English and Humanities for 12 years at middle- and senior-secondary levels in Victoria. Belinda has taught and held leadership positions at Eltham College and Billanook College and is passionate about developing engaging and accessible English education and resources for students of differing abilities and backgrounds.

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