Genre-based text-led collections reflecting the emphasis on how language is used and what effects it achieves.Rich and varied design encouraging students to read across the wide range of materials required at KS3 (S1/S2).Carefully selected extracts (literary and non-literary, pre and post 1914, familiar and more unusual) accompanied by examples of the key language skills.Choice of texts informed by and awareness of thier appeal to boys as well as girls in order to meet concerns about raising standards.Built in cross-referencing on a thematic and linguistic basis to highlight links and facilitate mini-projects.Series stategy underpinned by networks (concept maps) as an aid to organise information and ideas in an effective and memorable way.

 

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 112 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Oxford University Press .

Martin Davies, Helen Bird, David Orme, Maureen Lewis and Gareth Price