English for CCEA KS3 Year 8 has been written to support students and teachers as they work to meet the requirements of the Revised Curriculum for Northern Ireland, devised by CCEA. The aims and objectives of the Revised Curriculum have been adopted and endorsed. The units of work provide a range of texts, tasks and activities which can challenge and extend the knowledge, understandings and skills of language learners. Texts have been selected to include spoken, illustrated, moving image and multi-media materials, as well as the conventional printed text. Students are encouraged to see the purposes and audiences for language, and the differences between the genre and form of texts. Opportunities have been created to investigate how new technologies can act as a powerful medium for communication and a useful tool for creating new texts, presenting ideas and for carrying out research. Links are made throughout English for CCEA KS3 Year 8 with aspects of the Thinking Skills and Personal Capabilities Framework which forms a central part of the Revised Curriculum. Students will appreciate the importance of good language skills and the relationship with the ability to think effectively, creatively and critically.

 

This book is part of a book series called Key Stage 3 English .

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 132 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by Hodder Education .

Jennifer McGowan was born in Ohio, grew up in Montana, and studied in Paris. She fell in love with the Elizabethan era as a college student and is now an unrepentant scholar of the period, happily splitting her time between the past and present. An RWA Golden Heart Award winner and multiple finalist, Jenn is the author of the Maids of Honor series. She lives in Ohio. Visit her (and the Maids of Honor) at JenniferMcGowan. com. Kate O'Hanlon, series editor, (English Adviser for SELB), Maura Johnston (Advisory Teacher SELB), Jennifer Magowan (Advisory Teacher SELB), Noreen Doran, Vanessa Goucher

This book has the following chapters: Introduction Learning Intentions for English Features of the book Unit 1: You and your language Introduction Who are you? Early speech Spelling Early reading Readers around us Early writing Unit review Unit 2: Our environment Introduction Recognising text types Managing information Writing a non-chronological report Unit review Unit 3: Rhyme and reason What is poetry? Limericks Haiku Sense poems Sounds Simile and metaphor Unit review Unit 4: The reader's point of view Seeing things Unit review Unit 5: Reader's Theatre Introduction What is involved? Preparing for Reader's Theatre Time to do Reader's Theatre Writing a script Unit review Unit 6: Using the plot Introduction Back to the plot. Detective or mystery fiction The shape of the plot Unit review Unit 7: Toil and trouble Macbeth Shakespeare's language Unit review Unit 8: Reading images Reading images Unit review