Advanced Reading & Writing: Phoenix English Skills

ISBN 9781876580292
Subject English
Year Level Year 7, Year 8

Advanced Reading and Writing Contents

Writing skills

1 Purpose and audience

2 Using better verbs

3 Using better nouns

4 Using adverbs and adjectives

5 Good sentences

6 Using paragraphs

7 Sequencing ideas in paragraphs

8 Sentences within a paragraph

9 Headings and subheadings

10 Writing expositions, discussion and essays

11 Referencing, bibliographies and footnotes

12 Letter layout

13 Tone

14 Active and passive voice

15 Consistency in tense

16 Maintaining tense

17 Idioms using prepositions

18 Plain writing

19 Common writing errors

20 Saying what you mean

21 Editing and proofreading

22 Summarising texts

23 Writer's checklist

Reading skills

24 Figurative and literal writing

25 Figures of speech

26 Idioms and common sayings

27 Similes and metaphors

28 Literary tools

29 Parody, irony and puns

30 Forward and backward referencing in cloze passages

31 Distinguishing fact from opinion

32 Identifying text features

33 Features of a novel

34 Features of newspaper reports

Tests

Answers

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ISBN 9781876580292
Subject English
Year Level Year 7, Year 8
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Author: John and Jenny Barwick, Publisher: Phoenix