Secondhand Books

SECONDHAND

A wide range of funny, dramatic, sad and scary stories will have students exercising their imagination and developing their ability to read and comprehend different texts. Focusing on the sub-strands of Interpreting, analysing, evaluating (Comprehension) and Creating texts (Writing), each level in this seven-book series will see your students’ literacy skills flourish.

Since English is a teaching and learning area where components are interrelated, links to sub-strands of the Language and Literature strands and other sub-strands of Literacy are provided. The series emphasises the following threads:

• Purpose and audience


• Reading processes


• Comprehension strategies


• Analysing and evaluating texts – Year 6 only


• Creating texts (Editing and Use of software have been included but Handwriting has not.)

Features:

• reading activities


• comprehension activities


• writing activities


• teaching points


• a variety of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts


• additional activities


• answers


• content descriptions and elaborations for each set of four pages


• comprehensive Australian Curriculum English links