Key Skills VCE English
$39.95
ISBN 9781923154612
Covering Units 1–4 of the VCE English/EAL Study Design, Insight’s Key Skills: VCE English takes an accessible and practical approach aimed at honing students’ skills and developing their confidence.
A combined workbook and textbook, Key Skills: VCE English guides students through all assessment tasks, supported by stimulating activities, scaffolded writing exercises and easy-to-follow processes.
THE BOOK FEATURES:
- Guidelines and models for responding both personally and analytically to texts
- Advice for using key ideas and mentor texts to stimulate students’ own writing
- Diverse and engaging media texts, including audio and audiovisual texts, on contemporary issues
- High-level sample responses for all assessment tasks
- A chapter on the exam
- Bonus digital resources, including additional sample responses and further assessment practice.
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Senior English Skills: Preparing for VCE English
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Senior English Skills: Preparing for VCE English is a comprehensive workbook designed specifically to help prepare Year 10 students for success in their senior English studies. In addition to detailed explanations and examples of key concepts, this practical resource includes word banks, model sentences and paragraphs, sentence starters, prompts and annotated sample responses to build students’ confidence and skills progressively.
The title is divided into three sections, each targeting a key element of senior English study: text analysis; writing skills; and argument and language analysis.
Section 1: Analysing texts guides students through the process of producing well-constructed and insightful analytical responses to individual texts.
Section 2: Crafting texts leads students to create their own texts across the four key areas of writing (imaginative, reflective, informative and persuasive), teaching them to use key ideas and mentor texts as inspiration and take into account audience, context and purpose.
Section 3: Exploring argument takes a step-by-step approach to developing students’ skills in analysing argument and language in a holistic way, and includes a detailed chapter guiding students in presenting their own point of view on an issue.
By encouraging focused practice of these key skills, Senior English Skills: Preparing for VCE English gives students the tools to become confident writers heading into their senior years.
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- Contemporary media texts for analysis
- References to a diverse range of literary and popular texts
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Insight English Skills Series, Writing, Secondary, English, English Skills, Writing Skills, Year, Year 10, Year 9, Study Guides, Insight
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Senior English Skills: Preparing for VCE English is a comprehensive workbook designed specifically to help prepare Year 10 students for success in their senior English studies. In addition to detailed explanations and examples of key concepts, this practical resource includes word banks, model sentences and paragraphs, sentence starters, prompts and annotated sample responses to build students’ confidence and skills progressively.
The title is divided into three sections, each targeting a key element of senior English study: text analysis; writing skills; and argument and language analysis.
Section 1: Analysing texts guides students through the process of producing well-constructed and insightful analytical responses to individual texts.
Section 2: Crafting texts leads students to create their own texts across the four key areas of writing (imaginative, reflective, informative and persuasive), teaching them to use key ideas and mentor texts as inspiration and take into account audience, context and purpose.
Section 3: Exploring argument takes a step-by-step approach to developing students’ skills in analysing argument and language in a holistic way, and includes a detailed chapter guiding students in presenting their own point of view on an issue.
By encouraging focused practice of these key skills, Senior English Skills: Preparing for VCE English gives students the tools to become confident writers heading into their senior years.
THE BOOK FEATURES:
- Contemporary media texts for analysis
- References to a diverse range of literary and popular texts
- Well-scaffolded activities and exercises to suit a range of abilities
- Tools, guidelines and examples to guide students’ writing
- Annotated sample responses.
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Insight’s NEW Explore and Analyse Argument provides comprehensive coverage of Area of Study 2 in Units 2 and 4 of the new VCE English/EAL Study Design, to be implemented at Year 11 from 2023 and Year 12 from 2024. Taking a step-by-step, scaffolded approach to the development of written and analytical skills, this practical resource covers the analysis of argument and of persuasive language in a variety of media texts, supported by an extensive range of stimulating activities. Bonus digital supplementary material caters to a wide range of ability levels and provides further opportunities for students to hone their analytical and writing skills.
Drawing on the strengths of its bestselling predecessor Argument and Persuasive Language but with a fresh new approach, this innovative resource is designed to be used from middle years through to the end of Year 12. It provides clear and accessible explanations of all key knowledge, including metalanguage. With an emphasis on practical support, Explore and Analyse Argument also includes word banks, sentence starters, model sentences and templates, showing students how to write analytically about argument and persuasive language in print, digital, audio and audio-visual texts in a holistic way.
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- Single-text and multiple-text scenarios, with sample student analyses
- Guidelines for developing strongly structured and well-supported point-of-view pieces, with detailed advice for oral presentations
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