Achieve! English - Essential Reading Skills

Part of the series Achieve! English.

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Achieve! English - Essential Reading Skills provides students with strategies for extracting meaning from a variety of text types. Students will practise locating required information in a text, use organisational devices such as contents pages and indexes, explore the use of presentational devices, identify different genres and develop annotation skills. Included with this title is an editable CD-ROM version of all pages in the book, as well as an illustrations file. These files can be easily edited to suit the individual needs of students and curriculum requirements.

Key Features

• Assists students in developing strategies to extract meaning from texts
• Focus on understanding organisational devices and their importance in locating specific information
• Features engaging activity work sheets
• Includes editable CD-ROM versions of all pages and an illustrations file

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About the Achieve! English Series

The Achieve! English series is for secondary students with low-level literacy skills who require modified classroom activities to fully participate in the curriculum. Give your students the ability and confidence to work alongside their classmates on curriculum-related materials specifically tailored for their literacy needs. Titles in this series have a mature-look and include topics that will appeal to teenagers. Key features:

• Strong emphasis on developing literacy skills with clear learning objectives
• Extensive Teacher’s Notes guide you through each unit ensuring your students will receive maximum success
• Included work sheets and starter activities are designed to meet curriculum requirements and contextualise content for students
• Extension ideas to reinforce main skills or knowledge, as well as ways to integrate technology into lesson planning
• Mature-look page layouts and illustrations
• Assessment sheets to record progress. These can be used for teacher reference only or together with students to involve them in the process of recording and reviewing their achievements

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Other Titles in the 'Achieve! English' Series

Structuring Your Writing

Assists students to implement order, interest and organisation in their writing.
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Essential Writing Skills

Provides a range of activities that teach the use of common grammatical constructions and devices.
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Reading and Writing for Exams and Tests

Provides a range of activities that explore the types of questions commonly used for assessing students.
View Writing for Exams and Tests

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Speaking and Listening

Provides students with strategies for communicating effectively in a variety of situations, for a variety of purposes.
View Speaking and Listening

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Writing for Everyday Purposes

Focuses on the variety text types students regularly use.
View Writing for Everyday Purposes

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Writing for Work

Covers a range of tasks related to workplace writing and communication.
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Reading for Meaning 2

Helps students to explore, interpret and analyse a range of text types, such as instructional, persuasive, poetry and narrative, and key features of each genre.
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Proofreading and Editing

Helps students correct and improve their writing through a range of engaging activities.
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Text Types: Narrative 1

Breaks down the elements of narrative text into manageable explanations and provides students with short, appropriate examples.
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Text Types: Persuasive 1

Outlines the key features of persuasive texts and writing techniques, and provides students with short, appropriate examples.
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Text Types: Informative

Offers a range of activities to help students structure and write effective information reports and factual recounts (Book 1), and structure and write an effective procedure or explanation (Book 2).
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