English for the Australian Curriculum Book 1


Book Description

English for the Australian Curriculum Book 1 privileges student experience, creative engagement with texts, moments of reflection and deep thinking. Drawing on an inquiry model of learning, it provides opportunities for students to write and create their own texts. Written for the Australian Curriculum, English for the Australian Curriculum Book 1 provides a fully balanced and integrated approach to the study of language, literature and literacy. It actively engages students with texts at a variety of levels: • Develops language skills at word, sentence and text level, with activities in reading, writing, viewing, creating, listening and speaking • Encourages student writing across a variety of contexts, for a variety of purposes and for a variety of audiences • Underlines the importance of visual literacy • Provides opportunities for students to create their own multimodal texts




History for the Australian Curriculum Year 7


Book Description

Written by Australia's leading history educators, History for the Australian Curriculum is a comprehensive and compelling series for Years 7-10 that caters for the different learning styles and abilities in Australian classrooms without sacrificing the depth and quality of content needed to successfully understand historical concepts and skills. This series encourages you to pose questions, analyse sources and use evidence to illuminate and enrich your understanding of the past. Using this inquiry framework, you develop historical knowledge and understanding, explore key concepts and apply essential skills as you study the societies, events, movements and developments that have shaped world history. A suite of innovative and flexible print and digital resources are available for each year level and can be combined in a number of ways to suit the needs of your school and your students: Print textbook; Print workbook; PDF textbook; Electronic workbook; Interactive Textbook; Teacher Resource Package.




English Skills Builder 1


Book Description

The Australian Curriculum edition of the English Skills Builder series sees these best-selling skills resources fully revised to address the three English strands of Language, Literacy and Literature. Designed to complement any English program, this series will teach and reinforce the skills that students need at junior secondary level. Each workbook is divided into 50 units, and content explores different aspects of language use as well as different text types and genres. The English Skills Builder series are now accompanied by digital obooks for the first time. The obook is a cloud-based web-book available anywhere, anytime, on any device, navigated by topic or by 'page view'. As well as containing the student text, the obook offers additional Enriching Literature units focusing on texts relevant to the cross-curriculum priorities, as well as popular classic and contemporary texts.For all related titles in this series, please click here




English for the Australian Curriculum Book 2


Book Description

English for the Australian Curriculum Book 2 draws on a wide variety of contemporary textual modes to encourage students to explore what texts tell us about ourselves, our place in the world, and how we communicate and interact with others. A student focused text, English for the Australian Curriculum Book 2 privileges student experience, creative engagement with texts, moments of reflection and opportunities for deep thinking. Drawing on an inquiry model of learning, it provides opportunities for students to write and create their own texts, as they develop their knowledge, appreciation and enjoyment of a host of literary and non-literary text forms.




Australian Curriculum English


Book Description

"[A] series of seven teacher resource books that support teaching and learning activites in Australian Curriculum English"--foreword.







Laurinda


Book Description

Laurinda is an exclusive school for girls. At its secret core is the Cabinet, a trio of girls who wield power over their classmates - and some of their teachers. Entering this world of wealth and secrets is Lucy Lam, a scholarship girl with sharp eyes and a shaky sense of self. As she watches the Cabinet at work, and is courted by them, Lucy finds herself in a battle for her identity and integrity.




Essential Mathematics Gold for the Australian Curriculum Year 7


Book Description

Essential Mathematics Gold for the Australian Curriculum Year 7 contains the following features: • The three interconnected content strands are incorporated into 10-11 units of work that can be completed in the school year. • Carefully chosen and assessed language, design and sentence structures engage students who struggle with maths and potentially with reading. • Examples show explanations alongside solutions, and are closely linked to carefully graded exercises, giving students the opportunity for immediate success and to work independently. • Maths Words and Hint balloons reinforce the meaning of key terms and help students apply key concepts as they work through the exercises. • Every question is grouped according to the proficiency strands of the Australian Curriculum • Important terms are defined within the text for immediate understanding and included in the glossary for reference and revision. • Games and puzzles in every chapter • Chapter reviews include summary mind maps of key concepts and lots of revision questions to test understanding.




ICE-EM Mathematics Australian Curriculum Edition Year 10 Incorporating 10A Book 2


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A complete 5-10A mathematics series for the Australian Curriculum. The ICE-EM Mathematics series was created by the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) to provide a mathematics program that gives students a clear understanding of ideas and concepts. It aims to improve mathematics learning for students with a range of abilities, needs and levels of interest. This new, full-colour series has been rewritten and developed for the Australian mathematics curriculum by AMSI, while retaining the structure, depth and approach of the original titles. The development team has thoroughly reviewed the Australian mathematics curriculum to produce materials that cover all of the required content, as well as provide additional coverage of topics that are relevant and essential for a complete understanding of mathematics.




Skillworks!


Book Description

Skillworks, Second Edition is a fully revised weekly homework program. Each week students complete a thematically based, double-sided worksheet and build their knowledge and skills in grammar, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary and comprehension. Each worksheet contains a clear explanation of a particular rule followed by interesting and relevant exercises.