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www.blake.com.au Order your FREE 30-Day Preview Copy NOW! SECONDARY ENGLISH CATALOGUE Please pass on to : - Head of English - Special Needs Coordinator - English Teachers - Drama Department - Staff Room Dear Teacher, Looking for an easy-to-use resource that will help you to prepare your students for NAPLAN * all year round? Each book in the Maximising Test Results series contains targeted tests that focus on spelling, punctuation, vocabulary and grammar skills.These titles are ideal for end of class revision, weekly homework or individual instruction. New to the series are: NAPLAN * -style Literacy – Quick Skills Tests – Year 7 Language Conventions NAPLAN * -style Literacy – Quick Skills Tests – Year 9 Language Conventions The Achieve! range is specifically designed for students with poor literacy skills. But we know from teacher feedback that they are also very suitable for regular classrooms. Each of these new titles are Australian Curriculum compliant and focus on Information text types – their key features and how to write and analyse them. Take a look at: Achieve! Text types Informative 1 – Information report and factual recount Achieve! Text types Informative 2 – Procedure and explanation You can view these new resources on a FREE 30-Day Preview: H View resources FREE for 30 days H Reply paid address for returned items H No obligation to purchase! Happy teaching! Jennifer Gough BEST SELLER BEST SELLER * These are not officially endorsed publications of the NAPLAN program and are produced by Blake Education independently of Australian Governments.

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www.blake.com.auOrder your FREE 30-Day Preview Copy NOW!

SECONDARY ENGLISH CATALOGUE

Please pass on to:

- Head of English

- Special Needs

Coordinator

- English Teachers- Drama Department

- Staff Room

Dear Teacher,

Looking for an easy-to-use resource that will help you to prepare your students for NAPLAN* all year round? Each book in the Maximising Test Results series contains targeted tests that focus on spelling, punctuation, vocabulary and grammar skills. These titles are ideal for end of class revision, weekly homework or individual instruction.

New to the series are:

• NAPLAN*-style Literacy – Quick Skills Tests – Year 7 Language Conventions

• NAPLAN*-style Literacy – Quick Skills Tests – Year 9 Language Conventions

The Achieve! range is specifically designed for students with poor literacy skills. But we know from teacher feedback that they are also very suitable for regular classrooms. Each of these new titles are Australian Curriculum compliant and focus on Information text types – their key features and how to write and analyse them.

Take a look at:

• Achieve! Text types Informative 1 – Information report and factual recount

• Achieve! Text types Informative 2 – Procedure and explanation

You can view these new resources on a FREE 30-Day Preview:

H View resources FREE for 30 days H Reply paid address for returned items H No obligation to purchase! Happy teaching!

Jennifer Gough

BESTSELLER

BESTSELLER

* These are not officially endorsed publications of the NAPLAN program and are produced by Blake Education independently of Australian Governments.

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 students the ability and confidence to work alongside their classmates on curriculum-related materi-als specifically tailored for their literacy needs. Titles in this series have a mature-look and include topics that will appeal to teenagers.

* These are not officially endorsed publications of the NAPLAN program and are produced by Blake Education independently of Australian Governments.

These titles include short texts that focus on teaching and consolidating the skills required to complete the Language Conventions component in the NAPLAN* tests. They aim to demystify the experience so students can approach the tests with confidence.

Topics for Quick Skills Tests – Year 9 Language ConventionsUnits Include:

• Words used in the subjects we study• Words endings• Adding prefixes• Adding suffixes• The ‘i’ before ‘e’ rule• Capital letters• Commas

…Plus More

Topics for Quick Skills Tests – Year 7 Language ConventionsUnits Include:

• Adding prefixes • Adding suffixes • The past tense of verbs • Homophones • Words endings • Full stops, question marks and exclamation marks • Italics • Colons and semicolons

…Plus More

Achieve! English

Maximising Test Results - NAPLAN*-style Literacy

Text Types Informative 1Units Include:

• Introducing Reports• Gathering information• Writing paragraphs• Visual elements• Summing up• Introducing factual recounts• Sequencing events• Adding details• Using quotations

…Plus More

Text Types Informative 2Units Include:

• Features of a procedure• Goals, materials and audience• Sequencing and evaluating• Language features of procedural texts• Pictorial procedures• Structure of an explanation• Cause and consequence• Researching• Language features of explanation texts• Visual formats

…Plus More

New to Term 2 New to Term 2

Junior – Middle

Junior – Middle

Junior - Year 7 Middle - Year 9

Page 45, Language Conventions Page 15, Language Conventions

Page 43, Text Types Informative 1 Page 33, Text Types Informative 2

$51.95

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Achieve! English Interactive Instant Lessons

Achieve! English

Proofreading and EditingTopics include: • Checking spelling• Proofreading silent letters Editing adjectives• Improving meaning• Apostrophes for ownership…plus more!

Reading for Meaning 2 Topics include: • Key words and hooks• Features of persuasive texts• Developing a point of view• Breaking down scripts Reading diagrams…plus more!

Writing for Work Topics include: • Taking telephone messages• Addressing envelopes• Understanding instructions• Invoicing• Communication in teams…plus more!

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Writing for Everyday Purposes Topics include: • Sequencing ideas• Writing blogs• Writing instructions• Planning speeches• Text messages…plus more!

While very suitable for the regular classroom, each title in the Achieve! English series is written at a literacy level appropriate for secondary school students who, because of poor reading skills, may struggle to comprehend regular classroom materials. A CD-ROM contains all the pages featured in the book, as well as a file of illustrations that can be used for other work sheets.

This series includes features that research indicates will help students develop their literacy skills. Students will feel confident completing short, achievable activities with, explicit instructions and explanations, and – of course – the opportunity to complete class work using technology. These titles are ideal for use on IWBs in the regular classroom as well as for students who need additional literacy support. Text forms include reports, an interview, letters to the editor, magazine columns, newspaper articles and verse.

Junior – Middle

Junior – Middle

Page 9, Narrative 1 Page 6, Persuasive1

Narrative 1 Topics Include:• Character• When and where• Orientation• Complication• Building the complication…plus more!

Persuasive 1 Topics Include:• Writing for an audience• Using emotive language• The use of repetition• Rhetorical questions• Using supporting evidence…plus more!

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English Book 1Units Include:• Punctuation• Syllables and compounds words• Forming plurals and adding vowel endings• Etymological knowledge…plus more!

English Book 2Units Include:• Prefixes• Plural noun endings• Possessive adjectives and pronouns• Alternative spellings of phonemes…plus more!

Written by teachers for teachers

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The Literacy in Events series assists students in Years 7–10 advance their literacy skills and vocabularies. Each unit covers an event that is of interest and significance to teenagers and young adults. Units introduce lists of words commonly used in these scenarios, and the activities encourage the students to practise using these words, while reinforcing basic spelling and grammar skills. Includes a CD-ROM of all work sheets in PDF format.

Literacy in Events Book 1 Events include: • Applying for a tax file number • The Australian Open • Buying a house or car • A car accident • Christmas in Australia • An engagement party • A flood • Winning the lottery …plus more!

Literacy in Events Book 2 Events include: • Reconciliation day • Applying for a job • Chinese New Year • A crime scene • A debate• Driving test • Football final • The formula one grand prix …plus more!

Literacy in Events

Literacy on Location

Modified, curriculum-focused resources for low-level literacy students.

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Use them to supplement your existing resources, to extend student capabilities, for revision purposes, or for class work when a regular teacher is absent.

Visit the Blake Education website or email [email protected] for more information about the Instant Lessons series and ordering advice.

Instant LessonsQuality ready-to-use resources

Each book in the Instant Lessons series is a collection of fresh and versatile work sheet activities which may be photocopied for student use. They are unique in providing the highest learning outcomes with instant usability.

Versatile uses Teaching benefits Supplementary classroom lessons ✓ Creative teaching ideas ✓Homework activities ✓ Developing greater student

interest and understanding ✓Reinforcement of learning ✓ A fresh approach to a topic ✓Extension work for advanced students ✓ A way to target student weaknesses ✓Preparation for assessment ✓ Suitable for individual or group work ✓

Exam revision ✓ A variety of activities for home study ✓

Literacy in Events Book 1The Literacy in Events series has been written and designed to assist students in Years 7–10 advance their literacy skills and vocabularies. Each unit covers an event that is of interest and signifi cance to teenagers and young adults. The units introduce lists of words commonly used in these scenarios, and the activities allow the students to practise using these words and any associated language, while reinforcing basic spelling and grammar skills. All the work sheets are included as interactive PDFs on the attached CD-ROM, making them ideal resources for use on interactive whiteboards or in laptop lessons. Students can type their answers into the PDF version or they can write their answers on photocopied work sheets.

Events includeAnzac Day, applying for a tax fi le number, the Australian Open, buying a car, Christmas, an engagement party, a garage sale, opening a bank account, parent–teacher interviews, the school formal, sitting an exam, voting in an election.

Associated titles in the Instant Lessons series

Quality ready-to-use resources

Literacy in Events

Book 1Colleen Mac-Demoulin

Instant LessonsAn imprint of Blake Education Pty LtdABN 50 074 266 023108 Main Rd Clayton South VIC 3169+61 3 9558 4433www.blake.com.au

• Literacy in Events Book 2

• Literacy on Location (Books 1, 2)

• Write Now! English Text Responses (Years 7–8, Years 9–10)

• English in Action (Books 1, 2)

• Achieve! English (Speaking and listening, Essential reading skills, Using phonics, Punctuation, Reading for meaning, Developing writing, Structuring your writing, Essential writing skills, Reading and writing for exams and tests)

• Blake’s Red Hot Writing Ideas (Books 1, 2, 3, 4)Bo

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Use them to supplement your existing resources, to extend student capabilities, for revision purposes, or for class work when a regular teacher is absent.

Visit the Blake Education website or email [email protected] for more information about the Instant Lessons series and ordering advice.

Instant LessonsQuality ready-to-use resources

Each book in the Instant Lessons series is a collection of fresh and versatile work sheet activities which may be photocopied for student use. They are unique in providing the highest learning outcomes with instant usability.

Associated titles in the Instant Lessons series

Literacy in Events

Book 2Colleen Mac-Demoulin

Instant LessonsAn imprint of Blake Education Pty LtdABN 50 074 266 023108 Main Rd Clayton South VIC 3169+61 3 9558 4433www.blake.com.au

• Literacy in Events Book 1

• Literacy on Location (Books 1, 2)

• Write Now! English Text Responses (Years 7–8, Years 9–10)

• English in Action (Books 1, 2)

• Achieve! English (Speaking and listening, Essential reading skills, Using phonics, Punctuation, Reading for meaning, Developing writing, Structuring your writing, Essential writing skills, Reading and writing for exams and tests)

• Blake’s Red Hot Writing Ideas (Books 1, 2, 3, 4)

Versatile uses Teaching benefits Supplementary classroom lessons ✓ Creative teaching ideas ✓Homework activities ✓ Developing greater student

interest and understanding ✓Reinforcement of learning ✓ A fresh approach to a topic ✓Extension work for advanced students ✓ A way to target student weaknesses ✓Preparation for assessment ✓ Suitable for individual or group work ✓

Exam revision ✓ A variety of activities for home study ✓

Literacy in Events Book 2The Literacy in Events series has been written and designed to assist students in Years 7–10 advance their literacy skills and vocabularies. Each unit covers an event that is of interest and signifi cance to teenagers and young adults. The units introduce lists of words commonly used in these scenarios, and the activities allow the students to practise using these words and any associated language, while reinforcing basic spelling and grammar skills. All the work sheets are included as interactive PDFs on the attached CD-ROM, making them ideal resources for use on interactive whiteboards or in laptop lessons. Students can type their answers into the PDF version or they can write their answers on photocopied work sheets.

Events includeApplying for a job, the birth of a baby, building a house, camping, a debate, a driving test, a family reunion, an Aussie Rules football fi nal, jury duty, a photo shoot, school sports day, signing a mobile phone contract.

Quality ready-to-use resources

Essential Writing Skills

Structuring Your Writing

Reading & Writing for Exams & Tests

Essential Reading Skills

Speaking and Listening

Junior – Middle

Junior – Middle

BOOK 1 Topics include: • Literacy in: the family, gaming, the garden, the snow• Literacy at the: supermarket, beach, zoo, library, hospital, aquarium, stadium, hairdresser, concert, museum, dentist, movies, post office, zoo, school…plus more!

BOOK 2 Topics include: • Literacy at the: cricket ground, pool, skate park, airport, restaurant, art gallery• Literacy in: space, technology, music, retail• Literacy on the: television, train, Internet…plus more!

The Literacy on Location series assists students to learn and use in correct context, the common words and language associated with everyday scenarios. The tasks in each unit vary in level of difficulty and style and will reinforce basic grammar, sentence construction and spelling skills. Book 1 has been written for use with years 7-8 and Book 2 for years 9-10.

Achieve! English cont...

Using PhonicsTopics include:• Adding endings and beginnings• Blending consonants• Syllable linking…plus more!

PunctuationTopics include:• What are sentences?• Capital letters and full stops• Beginnings and endings…plus more!

Developing WritingTopics include: • Creating characters• Using connectives• Creating images…plus more!

Reading for MeaningTopics include:• Features of informational text• Creating instructional texts• Writing and reading instructions …plus more!

Activities that are ideal for students that require literacy support.

Junior – Middle

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Quality resources for busy teachers

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Literacy for Work

Year 8 Reading Year 8 Language Conventions

Fully prepare Year 8 students for the national literacy tests.

Maximising Test Results - NAPLAN*-style Literacy series provides teachers and parents with the skills to assist Year 8 students im-prove their readiness for the Year 9 NAPLAN* test. Each book includes annotated work sheets and helpful tips (hints, traps, tricks and things to know) that will help students to understand the test format and different questions styles.

* These are not officially endorsed publications of the NAPLAN program and are produced by Blake Education independently of Australian Governments.

Maximising Test Results - Preparing for NAPLAN*

Year 8 Writing

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Visit the Blake Education website or email [email protected] for more information about the Instant Lessons series and ordering advice.

lnstant LessonsAn imprint of Blake Education Pty LtdABN 50 074 266 023108 Main Rd Clayton South VIC 3169+61 3 9558 4433www.blake.com.au

Year 8 Language ConventionsThe Maximising Test Results: Preparing for NAPLAN* series provides teachers and parents with the opportunity to help Year 8 students improve their literacy skills in readiness for the Year 9 national tests.

This book provides teachers with 30 practice work sheets on the topics of spelling, punctuation and using language. These work sheets are annotated with tips (hints, traps, tricks and things to know) to assist students to fully understand the test format and what each question requires.

The attached CD-ROM includes: a PDF version of this complete title (ideal for use on the IWB), a bonus full test paper, and helpful tips for students when answering multiple choice questions.

lnstant Lessons Quality ready-to-use resources

Each book in the Instant Lessons series is a collection of fresh and versatile work sheet activities that may be photocopied for student use. They are unique in providing the highest learning outcomes with instant usability.

Associated titles in the lnstant Lessons series

Versatile uses: ✓ Suitable for use on the IWB

✓ Thorough revision of key spelling, grammar, punctuation and writing skills

✓ For homework, revision, extension or to supplement a lesson

✓ For when a regular teacher is absent from the classroom

Teaching benefits and features: ✓ Great short-cut ideas and useful suggestions to help students answer questions

✓ A quick way to target student weaknesses

✓ Annotated pages include defi nitions and theory to reinforce key literacy skills

✓ Answers are provided to assist with time-effi cient preparation and marking

* This is not an offi cially endorsed publication of the NAPLAN program and is produced by Blake Education independently of Australian Governments.

Maximising Test Results: Preparing for NAPLAN*

• Year 8 Writing• Year 8 Reading

Maximising Test Results: NAPLAN*-style Literacy

• Year 7 Reading• Year 7 Language Conventions and Writing• Year 9 Reading• Year 9 Language Conventions and Writing

Maximising Test Results: NAPLAN*-style Numeracy

• Year 7 Calculator• Year 7 Non-calculator• Year 9 Calculator• Year 9 Non-calculator

Maximising Test Results: Preparing for NAPLAN*

Year 8Language

Conventions

Ally Chumley

* This is not an offi cially endorsed publication of the NAPLAN program and is produced by Blake Education independently of Australian Governments.

IWB FRIENDLY

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Visit the Blake Education website or email [email protected] for more information about the Instant Lessons series and ordering advice.

lnstant LessonsAn imprint of Blake Education Pty LtdABN 50 074 266 023108 Main Rd Clayton South VIC 3169+61 3 9558 4433www.blake.com.au

Year 8 ReadingThe Maximising Test Results: Preparing for NAPLAN* series provides teachers and parents with the opportunity to help Year 8 students improve their literacy skills in readiness for the Year 9 national tests.

This book provides teachers with 16 original texts covering the three focus areas: narrative, informative and persuasive (including newspaper and magazine articles, autobiography, novel extracts, letters, Internet blogs and forums, and essays). Each text is accompanied by sample questions – annotated with tips to assist students to fully understand the test format and question requirements.

The attached CD-ROM includes: a PDF version of this complete title (ideal for use on the IWB), a bonus full test paper, and helpful tips for students when answering multiple choice questions.

lnstant Lessons Quality ready-to-use resourcesEach book in the Instant Lessons series is a collection of fresh and versatile work sheet activities that may be photocopied for student use. They are unique in providing the highest learning outcomes with instant usability.

Associated titles in the lnstant Lessons series

Versatile uses: ✓ Suitable for use on the IWB

✓ Thorough revision of key spelling, grammar, punctuation and writing skills

✓ For homework, revision, extension or to supplement a lesson

✓ For when a regular teacher is absent from the classroom

Teaching benefits and features: ✓ Great short-cut ideas and useful suggestions to help students answer questions

✓ A quick way to target student weaknesses

✓ Annotated pages include defi nitions and theory to reinforce key literacy skills

✓ Answers are provided to assist with time-effi cient preparation and marking

* This is not an offi cially endorsed publication of the NAPLAN program and is produced by Blake Education independently of Australian Governments.

Maximising Test Results: Preparing for NAPLAN*

• Year 8 Writing• Year 8 Language Conventions

Maximising Test Results: NAPLAN*-style Literacy

• Year 7 Reading• Year 7 Language Conventions and Writing• Year 9 Reading• Year 9 Language Conventions and Writing

Maximising Test Results: NAPLAN*-style Numeracy

• Year 7 Calculator• Year 7 Non-calculator• Year 9 Calculator• Year 9 Non-calculator

Maximising Test Results: Preparing for NAPLAN*

Ally Chumley

* This is not an offi cially endorsed publication of the NAPLAN program and is produced by Blake Education independently of Australian Governments.

Year 8Reading

IWB FRIENDLY

Visit the Blake Education website or email [email protected] for more information about the Instant Lessons series and ordering advice.

lnstant LessonsAn imprint of Blake Education Pty LtdABN 50 074 266 023108 Main Rd Clayton South VIC 3169+61 3 9558 4433www.blake.com.au

Year 8 WritingThe Maximising Test Results: Preparing for NAPLAN* series provides teachers and parents with the opportunity to help Year 8 students improve their literacy skills in readiness for the Year 9 national tests.

In this book students are guided step-by-step through a range of writing tasks in each of the three focus areas: narrative, informative and persuasive. Included are detailed explanations of the purpose, structure, language features and text types of these genres, annotated writing samples and practice writing tasks.

The attached CD-ROM includes: a PDF version of this complete title (ideal for use on the IWB), a bonus full test paper, and helpful tips for students when answering multiple choice questions.

lnstant Lessons Quality ready-to-use resources

Each book in the Instant Lessons series is a collection of fresh and versatile work sheet activities that may be photocopied for student use. They are unique in providing the highest learning outcomes with instant usability.

Associated titles in the lnstant Lessons series

Versatile uses: ✓ Suitable for use on the IWB

✓ Thorough revision of key spelling, grammar, punctuation and writing skills

✓ For homework, revision, extension or to supplement a lesson

✓ For when a regular teacher is absent from the classroom

Teaching benefits and features: ✓ Great short-cut ideas and useful suggestions to help students answer questions

✓ A quick way to target student weaknesses

✓ Annotated pages include defi nitions and theory to reinforce key literacy skills

✓ Answers are provided to assist with time-effi cient preparation and marking

* This is not an offi cially endorsed publication of the NAPLAN program and is produced by Blake Education independently of Australian Governments.

Maximising Test Results: Preparing for NAPLAN*

• Year 8 Reading• Year 8 Language Conventions

Maximising Test Results: NAPLAN*-style Literacy

• Year 7 Reading• Year 7 Language Conventions and Writing• Year 9 Reading• Year 9 Language Conventions and Writing

Maximising Test Results: NAPLAN*-style Numeracy

• Year 7 Calculator• Year 7 Non-calculator• Year 9 Calculator• Year 9 Non-calculator

Maximising Test Results: Preparing for NAPLAN*

Ally Chumley

* This is not an offi cially endorsed publication of the NAPLAN program and is produced by Blake Education independently of Australian Governments.

Year 8Writing

IWB FRIENDLY

The Literacy for Work series is a collection of photocopiable activity work sheets that reinforce essential reading and writing skills. The activities put literacy in context in three workplaces – a hotel, a supermarket and a factory focusing explicitly on literacy skills. Students are then given the opportunity to apply these skills in tasks that gradually increase in difficulty. The units of work are suitable for students in years 7–10 and also support less able students. The work sheets are included as a PDF on the attached CD-ROM, making them ideal for use on IWBs.

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Junior – Middle

Writing 1Units Include:• Filling in a job application• Describing a person• Planning a party• Taking telephone messages…plus more!

Reading 1Units Include:• Read a hotel notice• Understanding labels• Days of the week and sight words• Use a diagram to find information…plus more!

Writing 2Units Include:• Writing emails• Filling in an inventory• Using persuasive language• Proofreading …plus more!

Reading 2Units Include:• Read personal details• Taking a booking• Using a key card• Read and understand dates…plus more!

Writing 3Units Include:• Letter writing• Proofreading for spelling and layout• Writing reports• Writing a questionnaire…plus more!

Reading 3Units Include:• Understanding sales offers• Pay arrangements• Responding to a fire• Reading health and safety signs…plus more!

Written by teachers for teachers

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The activities in this collection of photocopiable work sheets provide stimulating opportunities for students of all ability levels to make crea-tive responses to their reading. Activities are applicable to most novels, enabling teachers to exercise flexibility in the classroom by allowing students to study self-selected reading materials. Includes a CD-ROM of all work sheets in PDF format.

Stimulating activities for students of all ability levels.

English Text Responses Years 7-8Topics include: • Mapping the setting• Conflict and alliances• Transforming characters• Plot structure• Symbolic objects• Complicating the plot…plus more!

English Text Responses Years 9-10Topics include: • Identifying tone• The writer’s craft• Conflict and alliances• Pace of the plot• Identifying tone• The anti-hero…plus more!

Write Now! English Text Responses

BOOK 1Topics include: • Verbs, auxiliary verbs, tense, jargon, abbreviations,

sports words• Prepositions, prepositional phrases, prefixes, suffixes,

direct speech • Biographies, autobiographies, pronouns (first,

second, third person), bullet points…plus more!

BOOK 4Topics include: • Pronouns, informal English, visual writing, slang• Verbs, sports verbs, hyphens• Adverbs, commas, school words• Verb agreement, comparative adverbs, TV

jargon, apostrophes…plus more!

An engaging approach to learning grammar and spelling conventions.

BOOK 3Topics include: • Verbs: main, auxiliary, quotation marks, vital verbs• Tense: present, past, future, tense spelling strategy• Pronouns: personal, possessive • British and American spelling• A selection of editing activities…plus more!

BOOK 2Topics include: • Nouns, formal language, bullet points, jargon• Verbs (main, complex, auxiliary), subject–verb

agreement, rules for writing numbers, silent letters• Conjunctions, clauses, quotation marks• Verbs, adverbs, hyphens, apostrophes…plus more!

BOOK 5Topics include: • Verbs: main, complex, verb-subject agreement• Euphemisms, clichés, oxymorons and malapropisms• Verbs: infinitives, present and past participles• Netspeak and netiquette, sms language, web

addresses, net words…plus more!

This series focuses on teaching and consolidating the skills required to complete the national literacy test program called NAPLAN*. The activities are designed to help develop and refine skills in reading comprehension, general literacy, text analysis, logic and problem solving, and the higher order abstract reasoning that has become a feature of the NAPLAN* tests. Students are guided through the annotated work sheets with helpful tips ( ‘things to know’, ‘hints’, ‘traps’ and ‘tricks’ ) helping them to fully understand the test format and what each question requires.

Year 7 Language Conventions and Writing

Year 9Language Conventionsand Writing

Year 7 Reading

Year 9Reading

Maximising Test Results - NAPLAN*-style Literacy

Write Now! Grammar, Language and Editing Skills Junior – Middle

Junior – Middle

Junior – Middle

* These are not officially endorsed publications of the NAPLAN program and are produced by Blake Education independently of Australian Governments.

This series of fun books include tasks that build student confidence and knowledge of essential writing skills.

Learn more at www.blake.com.au

$41.95

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Each photocopiable work sheet in this series enables students to focus on aspects of creative writing such as language selection, literary devices, plot development and conflict.

BOOK 1 & 3SOLD OUT!

BOOK 2SOLD OUT!

BOOK 2Topics include: • Story resolution • Finding inspiration • Figurative language …plus more!

BOOK 1Topics include: • Attitudes to poetry• Sound devices• Personification, clichés, hyperbole…plus more!

These titles encourage students to explore poetry in depth, recognise key poetic devices, critically analyse specific poems and appreciate a range of writing styles.

Instant Lessons in Creative Writing Poetry Analysis

BOOK 2Topics include: • Note poems• Prose poems• Rhyming couplets• Doing a McGonagall• Seven ways of seeing• A poetry reading…plus more!

Launch students into creating original poems in traditional and modern forms. Help your students discover the power and pleasure of writing their own poetry. This series offers poetry writing exercises trialled in the classroom by experienced secondary teachers who are also practicing poets. The books contain activities that vary in form and will suit a range of students and abilities.

BOOK 1Topics include:• Question poems• Haiku – from Japan with love• Long and short poems• Pattern poems• Alphabet poems• Fun poems using similes…plus more!

Kickstart Poetry

BOOK 1Topics include: • Poetry as performance • Tragedy and comedy • Case studies• Understanding theatre terms …plus more!

BOOK 2Topics include: • Spatial relationships • Celluloid to stage• Developing a physical lazzi • From the page to the stage…plus more!

Integrates the strands of making, performing and critically appreciating drama.The aim of the activities in this series is to integrate the strands of making, performing and critically appreciating drama through actively engaging students. Teacher guidelines are included and contain selected answers, class safety tips, focus questions and extension ideas.

Experiencing Drama

More than Monologues

BOOK 1Topics include:• Preparing a monologue• Finding the right performance piece• Discover and understand the text• Create a directorial vision• Develop a character• Choose a space and block movements…plus more!

Practical approaches to studying, interpreting, creating and staging a monologue or duologue.To prepare a performance, drama students need more than just a script – they need tools to understand it. This series is written for students who would like to undertake the step-by-step process of studying, interpreting, creating and staging a monologue or a duologue. Each book contains four original monologues, one duologue, plus accompanying teacher’s notes, student activities and the production notes for each play.

BOOK 2Topics include:• Getting started• Photographs• Character, setting, conflict and resolution• Basic writing guidelines• Observations• Autobiographical topics…plus more!

Junior – Middle

Junior – Middle

Junior – Middle

Middle Senior

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