Reading & Writing: Phoenix English Skills

This book features sets of reading, writing and comprehension exercises and activities dealing with:

narrative - novel
narrative - short story
poetry - ballad
review
factual description
information report
journal
procedure
factual recount
literary recount
exposition
explanation
discussion
real life - table
real life - fact file

Reading and Writing Contents

1 Gold Town Narrative [novel]
2 The Stranger on the Stairs Narrative [short story]
3 The Streets of Forbes [Poetry (ballad)]
4 Latest Release Doomed to Success [Review]
5 Sumo Wrestlers[Factual description 1]
6 Canberra [Factual description 2]
7 Cities [Information report]
8 John McDouall Stuart Finds Central Mount Stuart [Journal]
9 How to Make a Barometer [Procedure]
10 Thunderstorm Terror [Factual recount]
11 Hunted [Literary recount]
12 Killer Cats, Rabid Rabbits and Treacherous Toads [Exposition 1]
13 Junk Food, or just Good Food? [Exposition 2]
14 How Coal is Made [Explanation]
15 Should Charity Begin at Home? [Discussion 1]
16 Is Tourism Good for Australia? [Discussion 2]
17 Some of Australia's Worst Shipping Disasters [Real life 1- table]
18 Temperature Extremes in Australia [Real life 2 - table]
19 Olympic Volunteer Fact File [Real life 3 - fact file]
20 Communication in Australia [Real life 4 -fact file]

ISBN 9781876580278
Subject English
Year Level Year 7, Year 8
Author: John and Jenny Barwick,
Publisher: Phoenix

Each section is introduced with a brief explanation and revision, followed by exercises ranging in degree of difficulty from basic revision to challenging. All exercises have answers in a separate section.

It can be used for:
classroom exercises
homework
assessment
extra work
revision