Full Description
Making connections between language and literacy skills and cross-curricular interests. Connecting English, A skills workbook Year 9 addresses the language and literacy strands of the Australian Curriculum: English in a workbook format that is ideal for both classroom use and homework. Each unit examines a particular skill, with an Understanding section containing explanations and exercises to help students grasp the theory, and an Applying section that lets them put it into practice with real-world texts and activities. Texts in the Applying section are drawn from identified cross-curricular areas, and there is also a set of activities to connect directly with the current area of classwork.
Contents
Introduction; Acknowledgements; About the authors; LANGUAGE; PARTS OF SPEECH; 1. Nominalisation; 2. Expressing possibility; 3. Active and passive voice; 4. Negatives; PUNCTUATION; 5. Colons and semi-colons; 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; Glossary
