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Connecting English: A Skills Workbook Year 9 (print and digital)

Connecting English: A Skills Workbook Year 9 (print and digital)
AUTHOR(S):
Sue Bittner / Mel Dixon / Stewart McGowan / Belinda Renouf
REGION:
Australia
LEVELS:
Year 9
SUBJECT AREA:
English
ISBN:
9781108909402
PUBLICATION DATE:
05/10/2020
Price:   AUD $26.95
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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.

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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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Print Workbook
Print Workbook
A workbook in print format.
Digital Workbook
Digital Workbook
The downloadable PDF student workbook enables students to enter answers, take notes and bookmark pages. It is downloaded from Cambridge GO using the unique 16-character code that is available for purchase separately.

The Digital Workbook is available for purchase separately or in a bundle with other Cambridge resources. To access the Digital Workbook register for a Cambridge GO account and enter the unique 16-character access code found in either the sealed pocket supplied on purchase from your bookseller, or in the email when purchased from Cambridge University Press Education Australia and New Zealand online.

LANGUAGE
Parts of speech
1 Nominalisation
2 Expressing possibility
3 Active and passive voice
4 Negatives
Punctuation
5 Colons and semicolons
6 Hyphens
Sentence construction
7 Embedded, projected and noun clauses
8 Sentence variety
Spelling
9 Silent letters
10 Dictionary and thesaurus
Vocabulary
11 Greek and Latin roots
12 Neologisms
LITERACY
Text construction
13 Subjective and objective language
14 Values, attitudes and beliefs
15 Cohesion
Literary devices
16 Register
17 Euphemism, idiom, cliché and jargon
Genre
18 Narrative genres
19 Descriptive writing
20 Instructional writing
21 Journalism
22 Writing speeches
23 Biography and autobiography
Literary analysis
24 Themes
25 Evaluating texts
26 Referencing

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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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