THE CREATIVE, CURRENT AND CONCISE THREE-YEAR PACKAGE FOR JUNIOR CYCLE ENGLISH

• Ebook version included
• 12 thematic units, containing up-to-date literary and non-literary texts, focus on subjects that matter to today’s young people.
• Each unit opens with a selection of stimulus material – including quotes, images, key words, statistics and facts – to engage students in productive conversation about the theme and promote oral communication skills
• Texts are followed by a bank of differentiated ‘Think about it’ questions to check understanding, develop opinion-based response and build exam-quality answers
• ‘Master the language’ tasks check knowledge of poetic devices, literary terms and other terminology
• ‘Chat it out’ tasks offer consistent opportunities for oral communication and spark discussion of the ideas or issues related to a text, device or genre
• ‘Get creative’ tasks provide regular opportunities for students to create their own written, oral, visual, digital and multimodal texts in preparation for Classroom-Based Assessment
• ‘Reflect on it’ tasks aid students in developing and articulating their response to a range of texts in preparation for the Assessment Task
• A unique visual storytelling unit – including extracts from comics, graphic novels, manga and silent books – arms students with the language they need to discuss image-based texts
• Dedicated Studied Poet and Poetry Analysis sections model critical analysis and underpin an appreciation of the genre
• Past paper and exam-style questions and model answers build confidence ahead of assessment and transfer critical thinking from textbook to studied texts
• A linked Learning Log builds a collection of student texts in preparation for Classroom-Based Assessment 2 and provides advice and ideas for assessment
• A standalone Grammar Guide helps students identify the effects of grammar while reading and apply grammar correctly in their own writing
• Digital resources support the selection and teaching of texts from the prescribed list for 2024–26