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

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 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

Glossary