Author(s): BEAN ET AL

Education

The English for a Purpose series provides a Student Book and CD-ROM pack for each level, with essential learning built around the three interrelated strands of the Australian Curriculum: English: Language, Literature and Literacy. Student Books Authentic informative, imaginative and persuasive text exemplars; Units aligned according to text purpose; Each unit introduces and analyses one text type: an overview page, a spread to explore reading and comprehension strategies and skills, a grammar and punctuation spread, a related writing activity on the CD-ROM, and an assessment rubric; Include a guide to selecting visual features to match the writing purpose. CD-ROM: CD-ROM is focused on writing included with each year level; Interactive text exemplars for each year level to model text structure, organisation and language features; Writing scaffolds to support students as they construct and edit texts onscreen; Editing and proofreading checklists.