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Inside this catalogue you’ll find all your essential English and Drama resources from the much-loved Instant Lessons range, including brand new Blake’s Red Hot Writing Ideas and Achieve! English.
Searching for great ideas to inspire your students to write? Blake’s Red Hot Writing Ideas contains a great range of challenging tasks. Each linked to an illustration that will encourage students to think about writing in diverse ways.
Achieve! English has been designed and written for secondary students who have low-level literacy skills and require modified classroom activities to fully participate in the curriculum. Students will experience success as they work alongside their classmates on curriculum-related material that is tailored for their literacy needs.
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Instant Lessons in Senior English Senior RRP:$49.95
Students will express personal responses to texts, compose their own pieces and think critically about what they have seen and read.Instant Lessons in Senior English is a three-book series that contains material from a wide range of text types and offers activities that will encourage students to investigate context, purpose and audience, language forms and features.
BOOK 1Topics include:
Obituary•Explanation•Novel extract•Short story•Journal extract•Television review •Classified advertising•
…plus more!
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BOOK 3Topics include:
Website•Annual report•Scientific report•Email, Soliloquy•Novel extract•Encyclopedia entry•Radio transcript•
…plus more!
TITLE LEVEL ISBN RRP QTYAchieve! English Developing Writing Jnr/Mid 9781921015816 $39.95Achieve! English Punctuation Jnr/Mid 9781921015755 $39.95Achieve! English Reading for Meaning Jnr/Mid 9781921015823 $39.95Achieve! English Using Phonics Jnr/Mid 9781921015748 $39.95Achieve! Essential Writing Skills (coming soon) Jnr/Mid 9781921403408 $49.95Achieve! Reading and Writing For Exams and Tests (coming soon) Jnr/Mid 9781921403415 $49.95Achieve! Structuring Your Writing (coming soon) Jnr/Mid 9781921403392 $49.95Blake's Red Hot Writing Ideas for years 7–10 Book 1 Jnr/Mid 9781921403064 $39.95Blake's Red Hot Writing Ideas for years 7–10 Book 2 Jnr/Mid 9781921403071 $39.95Blake's Red Hot Writing Ideas for years 7–10 Book 3 Jnr/Mid 9781921403323 $39.95Blake's Red Hot Writing Ideas for years 7–10 Book 4 Jnr/Mid 9781921403330 $39.95Developing Literacy for High Schools Book 1 Jnr/Mid 9781921403019 $39.95Developing Literacy for High Schools Book 2 Jnr/Mid 9781921403026 $39.95Developing Literacy for High Schools Book 3 Jnr/Mid 9781921403033 $39.95English in Action Book 1 Jnr/Mid 9781921015540 $39.95English in Action Book 2 Jnr/Mid 9781921015557 $39.95Experiencing Drama Book 1 Jnr/Mid 9781865097312 $39.95Experiencing Drama Book 2 Jnr/Mid 9781865097329 $39.95Instant Lessons in Creative Writing Book 2 Mid/Snr 9781865096599 $39.95Instant Lessons in Creative Writing Book 3 Mid/Snr 9781865096605 $39.95Instant Lessons in Junior English Book 2 Jnr/Mid 9781865096575 $39.95Instant Lessons in Senior English Book 1 Snr 9781876133894 $49.95Instant Lessons in Senior English Book 3 Snr 9781876133917 $49.95Kickstart Poetry Book 1 Jnr 9781921015656 $39.95Kickstart Poetry Book 2 Mid 9781921015663 $39.95Middle Years Library & Research Skills–1 Jnr 9781865097121 $39.95Middle Years Library & Research Skills–2 Jnr 9781865097138 $39.95More than Monologues Book 1 Snr 9781921015588 $57.50More than Monologues Book 2 Snr 9781921015595 $57.50Poetry Analysis Book 1 Jnr/Mid 9781865097169 $39.95Poetry Analysis Book 2 Jnr/Mid 9781865097176 $39.95Solve It! Mysteries for Enquiring Minds Book 1 Jnr 9781921015304 $39.95Solve It! Mysteries for Enquiring Minds Book 2 Jnr 9781921015311 $39.95Targeting Media–Newspapers & Magazines Mid 9781865095394 $39.95Targeting Media–Radio & Multimedia Mid 9781865095387 $39.95Targeting Media–Television & Film Mid 9781865095370 $39.95Targeting Text–Ideas & Issues Jnr 9781865095363 $39.95Targeting Text–Information Jnr 9781865095356 $39.95Targeting Text–Literature Jnr 9781865095349 $39.95Write Now!–Grammar, Language & Editing Skills Book 1 Jnr 9781921015328 $39.95 FREE!Write Now!–Grammar, Language & Editing Skills Book 2 Jnr 9781921015335 $39.95Write Now!–Grammar, Language & Editing Skills Book 3 Jnr/Mid 9781921015229 $39.95Write Now!–Grammar, Language & Editing Skills Book 4 Jnr/Mid 9781921015236 $39.95Write Now!–Grammar, Language & Editing Skills Book 5 Jnr/Mid 9781921015243 $39.95Write Now!–Grammar, Language & Editing Skills Book 6 Jnr/Mid 9781921015250 $39.95
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LiteratureTopics include:
Deadly Unna?•Webcrash – virtual worlds•Drama Texts•So Much To Tell You – the play•Haiku•
…plus more!
Learning the features and purpose of different text types is a fundamental skill for all students. This series develops students’ comprehension and writing skills using real texts as models, studying their particular features and scaffolding students’ own writing with structured teaching units. The book covers nine of the most common text types used by secondary school students.
Targeting Text Students will learn to recognise different types of text by their unique features.
InformationTopics include:
Computer technology•Explanation texts •An Interview with my Poppa – recount text•The Legend of the Bush – information report text•Flight: From Nature to Aeroplanes – explanation text•
…plus more!
Ideas & IssuesTopics include:
Radio interview•Essay types•Drama texts•Television and advertising•Responding to poetry•
…plus more!
Radio & MultimediaTopics include:
Radio news programmes, •advertisements and dramaEmail and the Internet•On-line print publications•Chat lines •
…plus more!
Newspapers & MagazinesTopics include:
News reports, feature articles•Columns and opinion pieces•Editorials and political cartoons•Letters to the editor•
…plus more!
Television & FilmTopics include:
News and current •affairs programmesLifestyle shows•Thrillers•Action and Science-Fiction films•
…plus more!
BOOK 1Topics include:
Character construction – Studying and •presenting different personalitiesActionary – A fun, fast-paced mime activity•Lexical sandwich – Improvisations with a •linguistic twistWhat a weekend – Six characters and •their wacky weekendsScenario creation – Script events from a series of pictures•Building stories – Collaborative storytelling and performing•
…plus more!
A range of practical and fun drama-based activities for English classes that will enhance students’ creativity, self-awareness and writing skills. They will also build self-esteem, communication and group work skills. Each practical activity comes complete with teacher’s notes and photocopiable activity pages, picture cards, word cards, and student journal work sheets.
English in ActionFun drama exercises to improve literacy and creativity.
Junior – Middle RRP:$39.95
BOOK 2Topics include:
Move it – A fun warm-up to get students moving•Pivotal items – Throw an unexpected item into a •scene and see what happensFlashcard dialogue – Incorporating words •into improvised dialoguePitch – Developing a persuasive pitch to sell an idea•Agendas – Two characters with different motivations talk it out•Opera score – Turning operatic duets into dramatic dialogue•What’s cooking? – Reading non-verbal language•
…plus more!
Junior RRP:$39.95
Students will learn to identify the structures and features of media texts and be encouraged to view these texts critically. The book includes background information on each text type; introductory lesson ideas and associated photocopiable work sheets as well as sample annotated texts outlining the structural and language features of the various formats.
Targeting Media Students learn to identify the structures and features of media texts and view them with a critical eye.
Middle RRP:$39.95
Instant Lessons in Creative Writing Middle – Senior RRP:$39.95
Simple and effective teaching of creative writing through easy-to-follow units of work.Each fully photocopiable work sheet in this series is aimed at having students focus on a particular aspect of creative writing such as language selection, literary devices, plot development and conflict, so that their final work is original and maintains audience interest. Also included are actual examples of student work, to provide your students with concrete examples of different short story types.
BOOK 1SOLD OUT!
BOOK 2Topics include:
Establishing voice •Story resolution •Finding inspiration •Figurative language •Balance and rhythm•Editing•
…plus more!
BOOK 3Topics include:
Inner monologue •Psychological studies •Anecdotes •Setting •Writing formats•Developing theme•
…plus more!
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BOOK 1Topics include:
Poetry as performance •Tragedy and comedy •Case studies•Understanding theatre terms •
…plus more!
This series provides you with a flexible supplementary resource for your junior secondary students. Photocopiable work sheets cover a range of topics presented from practical and theoretical viewpoints. The aim of the activities is to integrate the strands of making drama, performing drama and critically appreciating drama through actively engaging students. Teacher guidelines are included containing selected answers, class safety tips, focus questions and extension ideas.
Experiencing DramaIntegrates the strands of making, performing and critically appreciating drama.
Junior – Middle RRP:$39.95
BOOK 2Topics include:
Spatial relationships •Celluloid to stage•Developing a physical lazzi •From the page to the stage•
…plus more!
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!
To prepare a performance, Drama students need more than just a script – they need tools to understand it. This exciting new 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 production notes for each play.
More than MonologuesPractical approaches to studying, interpreting, creating and staging a monologue or duologue.
Middle – Senior RRP:$57.50
BOOK 2Topics include:
Getting started•Photographs•Character, setting, •conflict and resolutionBasic writing guidelines •Observations •Autobiographical topics•
Occupational stories •inspired by interviewsChange of point of view•Stories told by eyewitnesses •Creating characters and monologues •Children’s stories from another perspective•
…plus more!
What are Instant Lessons?Instant Lessons are fully photocopiable books that contain timesaving and meaningful, curriculum-focused activities.The activities are useful: As pre-prepared tasks to complement your lessons For homework or revision As extension work As preparation for assessment When the regular teacher is absent
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The tasks in this series vary in style and purpose and include short narratives, medical and crime reports, radio scripts, advertisements, lists, biographies, cartoon dialogue and press releases. Most units also include an activity that will encourage students to use and explore correct spelling and grammar conventions and to illustrate some of their responses.
Blake’s Red Hot Writing Ideas contains a great range of challenging tasks. Each linked to an illustration that will encourage students to think about writing in diverse ways.
BOOK 1Topics include:
Celebrity scoop - writing profiles, magazine articles•Lone surfer - radio transcripts, editing skills•War zone - letter writing, question poems•Smellathon – prepositions, procedural text•Evidence of crime - formal report writing•Rules, rules, rules – verbs, newspaper letters•The hard sell – persuasive text, exclamations•In your worst dreams – editing spelling, inventing characters•
...plus more!
BOOK 2
Topics include:Doped up on the dais – writing for a website, dictionary task•Symbols and journeys – blog text, brainstorming•Talent quest – biography, speech bubbles•Diseased city – postcard text, writing a leaflet•Have a Punky Xmas! – festival customs, similes, card messages•Showground school – accounts, designing a school•Speed machine – recounts, setting a scene•CSI – sorting out the clues, report writing•
...plus more!
BOOK 3
Topics include:The laptop of luxury – scenarios and letters•Germs on the loose – public notices and inventing diseases•Hamburgerlicious – writing a menu, and describing food•The kindergarten kook – short stories and writing instructions•Thinking like a film director – storyboards, captions and scripts•Hot wheels – adjectives, dialogue, onomatopoeia•Instant world – packaging text, logos, writing warnings•Alone – story genres, describing loneliness, letter writing•
...plus more!
BOOK 4
Topics include:Transformations – writing a recipe, billboard advertising text •From another world - front page article, identification card text•Don’t underestimate me - email conventions, alternatives to ‘said’ •Big Brother - writing rules, letter to the editor •Beach tales - Ezra Pound Couplets, mind mapping, annotated drawing •People and their pets - haiku poetry, writing from a pet’s point of view•Organising a marathon - a ‘To Do’ list, creating publicity text, speeches •Soccer star - writing a coach’s team address, radio commentary•
...plus more!
Middle Years Library and Research Skills Junior RRP:$39.95
Achieve! Structuring Your Writing includes activities that will help students to make their writing more interesting. The unit of work focus on analysing and developing different types of narratives, paragraphing, using imagery and learning about formal writing devices.
Topics include: Dual narratives•Order and sequence•Circular narratives•Linear and non-linear narratives•
Structuring information•Sentence structures •Paragraphing•Structuring through themes and images •Structuring formal writing•
...plus more!Achieve! Essential Writing Skills teaches the use of common grammatical constructions and devices. The units of work focus on using capital, lower case letters, full stops, question marks and apostrophes as well as writing simple, compound and complex sentences and subject-verb agreement.
Topics include: Using short, simple sentences •Using upper and lower case letters •Capital letters and full stops •Compound sentences with common conjunctions •Question marks•
Plan, draft and organise •Verb tense and subject-verb agreement •Logical sequencing •Complex sentences •Apostrophes•
...plus more!
Achieve! Reading and Writing for Exams and Tests provides a range of tasks that explore the types of questions that are commonly used for assessing students. The units of work focus on: improving writing skills, selecting and using quotations appropriately, analysis and comparative writing skills and planning for writing.
Topics include: Writing descriptions •Writing to describe, inform, sell and advise •Writing for an audience •Improving your vocabulary •
Using interpretive skills•Analysing language devices•Comparing two texts•Purpose and viewpoint•Selecting information and using quotations•
...plus more!
Self-contained activities to improve library and research skills.The activities in this series will allow lower secondary students to familiarise themselves with their new high school library and refine their research skills, taking them further along the path to becoming independent learners. Each lesson is designed to last approximately 30–40 minutes and can be used by students with minimal input from the teacher or librarian.BOOK 1Topics include:
Arrangements of books •on library shelves Types of resources •available Parts of a book •Using the catalogue•
BOOK 2Topics include:
Sourcing information•Using catalogues•Shelf order•Dewey decimal system•Indexes and bibliography•
Developing Literacy for High Schools Junior – Middle RRP:$39.95
Photocopiable literacy activities suitable for Years 7–10; with the level of task difficulty increasing from book one through to book three.Spelling patterns, rules and exceptions, common root words and the parts of language are explored in a diverse range of activity types that will provide students with transferable spelling skills. Each two-page unit is divided into three sections that consists of a starter activity, a consolidation task to reinforce the main concepts and skills and an extension activity.
BOOK 1Topics include:
Plurals •‘ie’ and ‘ei’ rules •Compound words •Vowel phonemes•Common homophones•Changing verbs to nouns •Word histories and roots •Long, short and hidden vowels•Using the quartiles of a dictionary•
...plus more!
BOOK 2Topics include:
Foul vowels •Plural patterns•Apostrophes •Homophones•Suffixes and Prefixes •Drawing on word •structures to improve spellingLexical patterns in new vocabulary •Devise own ways to improve spelling •
…plus more!
BOOK 3Topics include:
Silent letters •Dropping the ‘e’ •Spelling strategies•High-frequency words•Knowledge of prefixes, •suffixes, homonyms and homographsWord families and word origins•Mnemonics to remember difficult spellings •Common spelling patterns and conventions •
…plus more!
Blake’s Red Hot Writing Ideas for Years 7–10 Junior – Middle RRP:$39.95
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Achieve! EnglishModified, curriculum-focused resources for lower-level literacy students.The Achieve! series of English titles has been developed for teachers who require additional activities for students who are struggling with literacy in years 7–10 and have a reading age of 6 to 9 years. Teachers can readily edit the pages to customise the material for individual students or classes and the curriculum requirements of your State. Some activities are more challenging than others and teachers should read the prior skills sections of the teacher’s notes to prepare their students for each unit of work
Junior RRP:$49.95
Achieve! Using Phonics is useful for students who have acquired some reading skills but need to be taught a range of sound patterns to make further progress. Each unit focuses on a particular sound or skill, and the units increase in level of difficulty.
Achieve! Punctuation includes a variety of contexts in which students can consolidate their understanding of the most commonly used punctuation marks. They will also practise integrating punctuation into their own writing.
Achieve! Reading for Meaning contains a range of text types for students to study and analyse. These include information and instructional texts, recounts, film reviews, texts that present arguments, scripts and poetry.
Topics include: Adding endings and beginnings•Blending consonants•Working with ‘ie’, ‘ei’, ‘ea’, ‘oo’ •and ‘ee’Vowels•Silent letters•Syllable linking•Compound words•
Synonyms and antonyms•Vowel sounds and ‘r’•Checking spelling•Triple blends and syllables•Silent letters•Words with ‘gue’ or ‘que’•Soft and hard sounds•Prefixes and suffixes•
...plus more!
Topics include: What are sentences? •Capital letters and full stops•Beginnings and endings•Letters and emails•Question and exclamation marks•Headlines, commas and clauses•The apostrophe•
Plurals and apostrophes•Direct, indirect and reported speech•Speech marks and other punctuation •Writing a report•Presenting speech in different ways•The colon, semicolon, hyphen, dash •and brackets
...plus more!
Topics include: Features of informational text •Scanning and summarising skills•Differences between facts and opinion •Analysing persuasive text •Topic sentences •The language of advertisements •Creating instructional texts•Writing and reading instructions •Explanatory texts and their purpose •
Finding information •Recounts and biography•Getting the order right•Film reviews and finding evidence •Brainstorming ideas •Developing an argument •Making quick notes •Connectives •What is a narrative? •Playscripts and poetry•
...plus more!
Topics include: Creating characters•Using connectives•Creating images•Style and purpose in text•Writing in sequence•Drafting your work •Crafting a poem •A story model and •the story wheel
Junior RRP:$39.95Achieve! English
Achieve! Developing Writing activities focus on word types and uses, ways of organising sentences and paragraphs to create variety in writing, story and recount planning and ideas for creating poetry and prose.
Adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs and •conjunctions Extending sentences and adding further detail •Reordering sentences and sentence variation •Planning writing for different purposes •The features of informational texts •Planning and writing a recount•
Creating, writing and linking paragraphs •Story planning•Endings and timelines of events•
...plus more!
Note taking•Assignment skills•Using the Internet•Website design and structure•Reliability of online information•Searching for information online•Copyright and plagiarism•
...plus more!
Writing a fiction review•Bibliographies •Encyclopedias, Atlases, •dictionaries and thesauruses Note taking •How to do an assignment•
...plus more!
BOOK 1Topics include:
Earth Sciences•Materials and their properties•Media presentations of issues•
This series is a collection of 10 hypothetical scenarios across a range of challenging topics. It is designed to encourage students to use problem-solving techniques and logical reasoning, and to consolidate and test their comprehension and writing skills. Each book includes teacher notes which provide a background briefing, related activities and sample answers and photocopiable information sheets to help students solve the mystery.
Solve It! Mysteries for Enquiring Minds Self-contained mysteries and open-ended activities in a range of challenging topics.
Junior RRP:$39.95
Road safety•Body systems•Computer viruses•
...plus more!
BOOK 2Topics include:
Forensic testing•Fraud•Computer systems•
Industrial espionage•Weather prediction•Dinosaur fossils•
...plus more!
Quality resources for busy teachers
BOOK 1Topics include:
Attitudes to poetry•Sound devices•Personification, clichés, hyperbole•
…plus more!
BOOK 2Topics include:
Poetry and music•Poetry of ancient civilisations•Postmodernism•
…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. The exercises will emphasise and illustrate the presence of poetry in nursery rhymes, greeting cards, song lyrics, advertising, graffiti and everyday speech.
Poetry Analysis Students will recognise the features of poetry, critically analyse a specific poem and appreciate a range of poetic styles.
Junior – Middle RRP:$39.95
BOOK 1Topics include:
Question poems•Haiku – from Japan with love•Long and short poems•Pattern poems•Alphabet poems•Diamante poems•Ballads•Waterfall poems•Fun poems using similes•Getting ready for a poetry reading•
…plus more!
BOOK 2Topics include:
Note poems•Prose poems•Rhyming couplets•Doing a McGonagall•The Ode•Text message poems•Found poems•The Villanelle•Seven ways of seeing•A poetry reading•
…plus more!
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.
Kickstart Poetry Launch students into creating original poems in traditional and modern forms.
Junior – Middle RRP:$39.95
BOOK 1Topics include:
Adjectives, quotation marks, synonyms, antonyms•Verbs, auxiliary verbs, tense, jargon, abbreviations, •sports wordsPrepositions, 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!
This series of humorous, lower-level ability tasks build student confidence and knowledge of written essential skills.
Write Now! An engaging approach to learning grammar and spelling conventions
Junior – Middle RRP:$39.95
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 lettersConjunctions, clauses, quotation marks•Verbs, adverbs, hyphens, apostrophes•
…plus more!
BOOK 6Topics include:
Conjunctions, clauses, colons, semi colons and •commas, SBD’s, similes and metaphorsVerbs, adverbs and adjectives, animal verbs, •reference style guide, reference wordsJargon and abbreviations, formal English, forward •slash, job application style guide
…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!
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The tasks in this series vary in style and purpose and include short narratives, medical and crime reports, radio scripts, advertisements, lists, biographies, cartoon dialogue and press releases. Most units also include an activity that will encourage students to use and explore correct spelling and grammar conventions and to illustrate some of their responses.
Blake’s Red Hot Writing Ideas contains a great range of challenging tasks. Each linked to an illustration that will encourage students to think about writing in diverse ways.
BOOK 1Topics include:
Celebrity scoop - writing profiles, magazine articles•Lone surfer - radio transcripts, editing skills•War zone - letter writing, question poems•Smellathon – prepositions, procedural text•Evidence of crime - formal report writing•Rules, rules, rules – verbs, newspaper letters•The hard sell – persuasive text, exclamations•In your worst dreams – editing spelling, inventing characters•
...plus more!
BOOK 2
Topics include:Doped up on the dais – writing for a website, dictionary task•Symbols and journeys – blog text, brainstorming•Talent quest – biography, speech bubbles•Diseased city – postcard text, writing a leaflet•Have a Punky Xmas! – festival customs, similes, card messages•Showground school – accounts, designing a school•Speed machine – recounts, setting a scene•CSI – sorting out the clues, report writing•
...plus more!
BOOK 3
Topics include:The laptop of luxury – scenarios and letters•Germs on the loose – public notices and inventing diseases•Hamburgerlicious – writing a menu, and describing food•The kindergarten kook – short stories and writing instructions•Thinking like a film director – storyboards, captions and scripts•Hot wheels – adjectives, dialogue, onomatopoeia•Instant world – packaging text, logos, writing warnings•Alone – story genres, describing loneliness, letter writing•
...plus more!
BOOK 4
Topics include:Transformations – writing a recipe, billboard advertising text •From another world - front page article, identification card text•Don’t underestimate me - email conventions, alternatives to ‘said’ •Big Brother - writing rules, letter to the editor •Beach tales - Ezra Pound Couplets, mind mapping, annotated drawing •People and their pets - haiku poetry, writing from a pet’s point of view•Organising a marathon - a ‘To Do’ list, creating publicity text, speeches •Soccer star - writing a coach’s team address, radio commentary•
...plus more!
Middle Years Library and Research Skills Junior RRP:$39.95
Achieve! Structuring Your Writing includes activities that will help students to make their writing more interesting. The unit of work focus on analysing and developing different types of narratives, paragraphing, using imagery and learning about formal writing devices.
Topics include: Dual narratives•Order and sequence•Circular narratives•Linear and non-linear narratives•
Structuring information•Sentence structures •Paragraphing•Structuring through themes and images •Structuring formal writing•
...plus more!Achieve! Essential Writing Skills teaches the use of common grammatical constructions and devices. The units of work focus on using capital, lower case letters, full stops, question marks and apostrophes as well as writing simple, compound and complex sentences and subject-verb agreement.
Topics include: Using short, simple sentences •Using upper and lower case letters •Capital letters and full stops •Compound sentences with common conjunctions •Question marks•
Plan, draft and organise •Verb tense and subject-verb agreement •Logical sequencing •Complex sentences •Apostrophes•
...plus more!
Achieve! Reading and Writing for Exams and Tests provides a range of tasks that explore the types of questions that are commonly used for assessing students. The units of work focus on: improving writing skills, selecting and using quotations appropriately, analysis and comparative writing skills and planning for writing.
Topics include: Writing descriptions •Writing to describe, inform, sell and advise •Writing for an audience •Improving your vocabulary •
Using interpretive skills•Analysing language devices•Comparing two texts•Purpose and viewpoint•Selecting information and using quotations•
...plus more!
Self-contained activities to improve library and research skills.The activities in this series will allow lower secondary students to familiarise themselves with their new high school library and refine their research skills, taking them further along the path to becoming independent learners. Each lesson is designed to last approximately 30–40 minutes and can be used by students with minimal input from the teacher or librarian.BOOK 1Topics include:
Arrangements of books •on library shelves Types of resources •available Parts of a book •Using the catalogue•
BOOK 2Topics include:
Sourcing information•Using catalogues•Shelf order•Dewey decimal system•Indexes and bibliography•
Developing Literacy for High Schools Junior – Middle RRP:$39.95
Photocopiable literacy activities suitable for Years 7–10; with the level of task difficulty increasing from book one through to book three.Spelling patterns, rules and exceptions, common root words and the parts of language are explored in a diverse range of activity types that will provide students with transferable spelling skills. Each two-page unit is divided into three sections that consists of a starter activity, a consolidation task to reinforce the main concepts and skills and an extension activity.
BOOK 1Topics include:
Plurals •‘ie’ and ‘ei’ rules •Compound words •Vowel phonemes•Common homophones•Changing verbs to nouns •Word histories and roots •Long, short and hidden vowels•Using the quartiles of a dictionary•
...plus more!
BOOK 2Topics include:
Foul vowels •Plural patterns•Apostrophes •Homophones•Suffixes and Prefixes •Drawing on word •structures to improve spellingLexical patterns in new vocabulary •Devise own ways to improve spelling •
…plus more!
BOOK 3Topics include:
Silent letters •Dropping the ‘e’ •Spelling strategies•High-frequency words•Knowledge of prefixes, •suffixes, homonyms and homographsWord families and word origins•Mnemonics to remember difficult spellings •Common spelling patterns and conventions •
…plus more!
Blake’s Red Hot Writing Ideas for Years 7–10 Junior – Middle RRP:$39.95
100% Photocopiable FREE book with every order
Achieve! EnglishModified, curriculum-focused resources for lower-level literacy students.The Achieve! series of English titles has been developed for teachers who require additional activities for students who are struggling with literacy in years 7–10 and have a reading age of 6 to 9 years. Teachers can readily edit the pages to customise the material for individual students or classes and the curriculum requirements of your State. Some activities are more challenging than others and teachers should read the prior skills sections of the teacher’s notes to prepare their students for each unit of work
Junior RRP:$49.95
Achieve! Using Phonics is useful for students who have acquired some reading skills but need to be taught a range of sound patterns to make further progress. Each unit focuses on a particular sound or skill, and the units increase in level of difficulty.
Achieve! Punctuation includes a variety of contexts in which students can consolidate their understanding of the most commonly used punctuation marks. They will also practise integrating punctuation into their own writing.
Achieve! Reading for Meaning contains a range of text types for students to study and analyse. These include information and instructional texts, recounts, film reviews, texts that present arguments, scripts and poetry.
Topics include: Adding endings and beginnings•Blending consonants•Working with ‘ie’, ‘ei’, ‘ea’, ‘oo’ •and ‘ee’Vowels•Silent letters•Syllable linking•Compound words•
Synonyms and antonyms•Vowel sounds and ‘r’•Checking spelling•Triple blends and syllables•Silent letters•Words with ‘gue’ or ‘que’•Soft and hard sounds•Prefixes and suffixes•
...plus more!
Topics include: What are sentences? •Capital letters and full stops•Beginnings and endings•Letters and emails•Question and exclamation marks•Headlines, commas and clauses•The apostrophe•
Plurals and apostrophes•Direct, indirect and reported speech•Speech marks and other punctuation •Writing a report•Presenting speech in different ways•The colon, semicolon, hyphen, dash •and brackets
...plus more!
Topics include: Features of informational text •Scanning and summarising skills•Differences between facts and opinion •Analysing persuasive text •Topic sentences •The language of advertisements •Creating instructional texts•Writing and reading instructions •Explanatory texts and their purpose •
Finding information •Recounts and biography•Getting the order right•Film reviews and finding evidence •Brainstorming ideas •Developing an argument •Making quick notes •Connectives •What is a narrative? •Playscripts and poetry•
...plus more!
Topics include: Creating characters•Using connectives•Creating images•Style and purpose in text•Writing in sequence•Drafting your work •Crafting a poem •A story model and •the story wheel
Junior RRP:$39.95Achieve! English
Achieve! Developing Writing activities focus on word types and uses, ways of organising sentences and paragraphs to create variety in writing, story and recount planning and ideas for creating poetry and prose.
Adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs and •conjunctions Extending sentences and adding further detail •Reordering sentences and sentence variation •Planning writing for different purposes •The features of informational texts •Planning and writing a recount•
Creating, writing and linking paragraphs •Story planning•Endings and timelines of events•
...plus more!
Note taking•Assignment skills•Using the Internet•Website design and structure•Reliability of online information•Searching for information online•Copyright and plagiarism•
...plus more!
Writing a fiction review•Bibliographies •Encyclopedias, Atlases, •dictionaries and thesauruses Note taking •How to do an assignment•
...plus more!
BOOK 1Topics include:
Earth Sciences•Materials and their properties•Media presentations of issues•
This series is a collection of 10 hypothetical scenarios across a range of challenging topics. It is designed to encourage students to use problem-solving techniques and logical reasoning, and to consolidate and test their comprehension and writing skills. Each book includes teacher notes which provide a background briefing, related activities and sample answers and photocopiable information sheets to help students solve the mystery.
Solve It! Mysteries for Enquiring Minds Self-contained mysteries and open-ended activities in a range of challenging topics.
Junior RRP:$39.95
Road safety•Body systems•Computer viruses•
...plus more!
BOOK 2Topics include:
Forensic testing•Fraud•Computer systems•
Industrial espionage•Weather prediction•Dinosaur fossils•
...plus more!
Quality resources for busy teachers
BOOK 1Topics include:
Attitudes to poetry•Sound devices•Personification, clichés, hyperbole•
…plus more!
BOOK 2Topics include:
Poetry and music•Poetry of ancient civilisations•Postmodernism•
…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. The exercises will emphasise and illustrate the presence of poetry in nursery rhymes, greeting cards, song lyrics, advertising, graffiti and everyday speech.
Poetry Analysis Students will recognise the features of poetry, critically analyse a specific poem and appreciate a range of poetic styles.
Junior – Middle RRP:$39.95
BOOK 1Topics include:
Question poems•Haiku – from Japan with love•Long and short poems•Pattern poems•Alphabet poems•Diamante poems•Ballads•Waterfall poems•Fun poems using similes•Getting ready for a poetry reading•
…plus more!
BOOK 2Topics include:
Note poems•Prose poems•Rhyming couplets•Doing a McGonagall•The Ode•Text message poems•Found poems•The Villanelle•Seven ways of seeing•A poetry reading•
…plus more!
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.
Kickstart Poetry Launch students into creating original poems in traditional and modern forms.
Junior – Middle RRP:$39.95
BOOK 1Topics include:
Adjectives, quotation marks, synonyms, antonyms•Verbs, auxiliary verbs, tense, jargon, abbreviations, •sports wordsPrepositions, 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!
This series of humorous, lower-level ability tasks build student confidence and knowledge of written essential skills.
Write Now! An engaging approach to learning grammar and spelling conventions
Junior – Middle RRP:$39.95
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 lettersConjunctions, clauses, quotation marks•Verbs, adverbs, hyphens, apostrophes•
…plus more!
BOOK 6Topics include:
Conjunctions, clauses, colons, semi colons and •commas, SBD’s, similes and metaphorsVerbs, adverbs and adjectives, animal verbs, •reference style guide, reference wordsJargon and abbreviations, formal English, forward •slash, job application style guide
…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!
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The tasks in this series vary in style and purpose and include short narratives, medical and crime reports, radio scripts, advertisements, lists, biographies, cartoon dialogue and press releases. Most units also include an activity that will encourage students to use and explore correct spelling and grammar conventions and to illustrate some of their responses.
Blake’s Red Hot Writing Ideas contains a great range of challenging tasks. Each linked to an illustration that will encourage students to think about writing in diverse ways.
BOOK 1Topics include:
Celebrity scoop - writing profiles, magazine articles•Lone surfer - radio transcripts, editing skills•War zone - letter writing, question poems•Smellathon – prepositions, procedural text•Evidence of crime - formal report writing•Rules, rules, rules – verbs, newspaper letters•The hard sell – persuasive text, exclamations•In your worst dreams – editing spelling, inventing characters•
...plus more!
BOOK 2
Topics include:Doped up on the dais – writing for a website, dictionary task•Symbols and journeys – blog text, brainstorming•Talent quest – biography, speech bubbles•Diseased city – postcard text, writing a leaflet•Have a Punky Xmas! – festival customs, similes, card messages•Showground school – accounts, designing a school•Speed machine – recounts, setting a scene•CSI – sorting out the clues, report writing•
...plus more!
BOOK 3
Topics include:The laptop of luxury – scenarios and letters•Germs on the loose – public notices and inventing diseases•Hamburgerlicious – writing a menu, and describing food•The kindergarten kook – short stories and writing instructions•Thinking like a film director – storyboards, captions and scripts•Hot wheels – adjectives, dialogue, onomatopoeia•Instant world – packaging text, logos, writing warnings•Alone – story genres, describing loneliness, letter writing•
...plus more!
BOOK 4
Topics include:Transformations – writing a recipe, billboard advertising text •From another world - front page article, identification card text•Don’t underestimate me - email conventions, alternatives to ‘said’ •Big Brother - writing rules, letter to the editor •Beach tales - Ezra Pound Couplets, mind mapping, annotated drawing •People and their pets - haiku poetry, writing from a pet’s point of view•Organising a marathon - a ‘To Do’ list, creating publicity text, speeches •Soccer star - writing a coach’s team address, radio commentary•
...plus more!
Middle Years Library and Research Skills Junior RRP:$39.95
Achieve! Structuring Your Writing includes activities that will help students to make their writing more interesting. The unit of work focus on analysing and developing different types of narratives, paragraphing, using imagery and learning about formal writing devices.
Topics include: Dual narratives•Order and sequence•Circular narratives•Linear and non-linear narratives•
Structuring information•Sentence structures •Paragraphing•Structuring through themes and images •Structuring formal writing•
...plus more!Achieve! Essential Writing Skills teaches the use of common grammatical constructions and devices. The units of work focus on using capital, lower case letters, full stops, question marks and apostrophes as well as writing simple, compound and complex sentences and subject-verb agreement.
Topics include: Using short, simple sentences •Using upper and lower case letters •Capital letters and full stops •Compound sentences with common conjunctions •Question marks•
Plan, draft and organise •Verb tense and subject-verb agreement •Logical sequencing •Complex sentences •Apostrophes•
...plus more!
Achieve! Reading and Writing for Exams and Tests provides a range of tasks that explore the types of questions that are commonly used for assessing students. The units of work focus on: improving writing skills, selecting and using quotations appropriately, analysis and comparative writing skills and planning for writing.
Topics include: Writing descriptions •Writing to describe, inform, sell and advise •Writing for an audience •Improving your vocabulary •
Using interpretive skills•Analysing language devices•Comparing two texts•Purpose and viewpoint•Selecting information and using quotations•
...plus more!
Self-contained activities to improve library and research skills.The activities in this series will allow lower secondary students to familiarise themselves with their new high school library and refine their research skills, taking them further along the path to becoming independent learners. Each lesson is designed to last approximately 30–40 minutes and can be used by students with minimal input from the teacher or librarian.BOOK 1Topics include:
Arrangements of books •on library shelves Types of resources •available Parts of a book •Using the catalogue•
BOOK 2Topics include:
Sourcing information•Using catalogues•Shelf order•Dewey decimal system•Indexes and bibliography•
Developing Literacy for High Schools Junior – Middle RRP:$39.95
Photocopiable literacy activities suitable for Years 7–10; with the level of task difficulty increasing from book one through to book three.Spelling patterns, rules and exceptions, common root words and the parts of language are explored in a diverse range of activity types that will provide students with transferable spelling skills. Each two-page unit is divided into three sections that consists of a starter activity, a consolidation task to reinforce the main concepts and skills and an extension activity.
BOOK 1Topics include:
Plurals •‘ie’ and ‘ei’ rules •Compound words •Vowel phonemes•Common homophones•Changing verbs to nouns •Word histories and roots •Long, short and hidden vowels•Using the quartiles of a dictionary•
...plus more!
BOOK 2Topics include:
Foul vowels •Plural patterns•Apostrophes •Homophones•Suffixes and Prefixes •Drawing on word •structures to improve spellingLexical patterns in new vocabulary •Devise own ways to improve spelling •
…plus more!
BOOK 3Topics include:
Silent letters •Dropping the ‘e’ •Spelling strategies•High-frequency words•Knowledge of prefixes, •suffixes, homonyms and homographsWord families and word origins•Mnemonics to remember difficult spellings •Common spelling patterns and conventions •
…plus more!
Blake’s Red Hot Writing Ideas for Years 7–10 Junior – Middle RRP:$39.95
100% Photocopiable FREE book with every order
Achieve! EnglishModified, curriculum-focused resources for lower-level literacy students.The Achieve! series of English titles has been developed for teachers who require additional activities for students who are struggling with literacy in years 7–10 and have a reading age of 6 to 9 years. Teachers can readily edit the pages to customise the material for individual students or classes and the curriculum requirements of your State. Some activities are more challenging than others and teachers should read the prior skills sections of the teacher’s notes to prepare their students for each unit of work
Junior RRP:$49.95
Achieve! Using Phonics is useful for students who have acquired some reading skills but need to be taught a range of sound patterns to make further progress. Each unit focuses on a particular sound or skill, and the units increase in level of difficulty.
Achieve! Punctuation includes a variety of contexts in which students can consolidate their understanding of the most commonly used punctuation marks. They will also practise integrating punctuation into their own writing.
Achieve! Reading for Meaning contains a range of text types for students to study and analyse. These include information and instructional texts, recounts, film reviews, texts that present arguments, scripts and poetry.
Topics include: Adding endings and beginnings•Blending consonants•Working with ‘ie’, ‘ei’, ‘ea’, ‘oo’ •and ‘ee’Vowels•Silent letters•Syllable linking•Compound words•
Synonyms and antonyms•Vowel sounds and ‘r’•Checking spelling•Triple blends and syllables•Silent letters•Words with ‘gue’ or ‘que’•Soft and hard sounds•Prefixes and suffixes•
...plus more!
Topics include: What are sentences? •Capital letters and full stops•Beginnings and endings•Letters and emails•Question and exclamation marks•Headlines, commas and clauses•The apostrophe•
Plurals and apostrophes•Direct, indirect and reported speech•Speech marks and other punctuation •Writing a report•Presenting speech in different ways•The colon, semicolon, hyphen, dash •and brackets
...plus more!
Topics include: Features of informational text •Scanning and summarising skills•Differences between facts and opinion •Analysing persuasive text •Topic sentences •The language of advertisements •Creating instructional texts•Writing and reading instructions •Explanatory texts and their purpose •
Finding information •Recounts and biography•Getting the order right•Film reviews and finding evidence •Brainstorming ideas •Developing an argument •Making quick notes •Connectives •What is a narrative? •Playscripts and poetry•
...plus more!
Topics include: Creating characters•Using connectives•Creating images•Style and purpose in text•Writing in sequence•Drafting your work •Crafting a poem •A story model and •the story wheel
Junior RRP:$39.95Achieve! English
Achieve! Developing Writing activities focus on word types and uses, ways of organising sentences and paragraphs to create variety in writing, story and recount planning and ideas for creating poetry and prose.
Adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs and •conjunctions Extending sentences and adding further detail •Reordering sentences and sentence variation •Planning writing for different purposes •The features of informational texts •Planning and writing a recount•
Creating, writing and linking paragraphs •Story planning•Endings and timelines of events•
...plus more!
Note taking•Assignment skills•Using the Internet•Website design and structure•Reliability of online information•Searching for information online•Copyright and plagiarism•
...plus more!
Writing a fiction review•Bibliographies •Encyclopedias, Atlases, •dictionaries and thesauruses Note taking •How to do an assignment•
...plus more!
BOOK 1Topics include:
Earth Sciences•Materials and their properties•Media presentations of issues•
This series is a collection of 10 hypothetical scenarios across a range of challenging topics. It is designed to encourage students to use problem-solving techniques and logical reasoning, and to consolidate and test their comprehension and writing skills. Each book includes teacher notes which provide a background briefing, related activities and sample answers and photocopiable information sheets to help students solve the mystery.
Solve It! Mysteries for Enquiring Minds Self-contained mysteries and open-ended activities in a range of challenging topics.
Junior RRP:$39.95
Road safety•Body systems•Computer viruses•
...plus more!
BOOK 2Topics include:
Forensic testing•Fraud•Computer systems•
Industrial espionage•Weather prediction•Dinosaur fossils•
...plus more!
Quality resources for busy teachers
BOOK 1Topics include:
Attitudes to poetry•Sound devices•Personification, clichés, hyperbole•
…plus more!
BOOK 2Topics include:
Poetry and music•Poetry of ancient civilisations•Postmodernism•
…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. The exercises will emphasise and illustrate the presence of poetry in nursery rhymes, greeting cards, song lyrics, advertising, graffiti and everyday speech.
Poetry Analysis Students will recognise the features of poetry, critically analyse a specific poem and appreciate a range of poetic styles.
Junior – Middle RRP:$39.95
BOOK 1Topics include:
Question poems•Haiku – from Japan with love•Long and short poems•Pattern poems•Alphabet poems•Diamante poems•Ballads•Waterfall poems•Fun poems using similes•Getting ready for a poetry reading•
…plus more!
BOOK 2Topics include:
Note poems•Prose poems•Rhyming couplets•Doing a McGonagall•The Ode•Text message poems•Found poems•The Villanelle•Seven ways of seeing•A poetry reading•
…plus more!
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.
Kickstart Poetry Launch students into creating original poems in traditional and modern forms.
Junior – Middle RRP:$39.95
BOOK 1Topics include:
Adjectives, quotation marks, synonyms, antonyms•Verbs, auxiliary verbs, tense, jargon, abbreviations, •sports wordsPrepositions, 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!
This series of humorous, lower-level ability tasks build student confidence and knowledge of written essential skills.
Write Now! An engaging approach to learning grammar and spelling conventions
Junior – Middle RRP:$39.95
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 lettersConjunctions, clauses, quotation marks•Verbs, adverbs, hyphens, apostrophes•
…plus more!
BOOK 6Topics include:
Conjunctions, clauses, colons, semi colons and •commas, SBD’s, similes and metaphorsVerbs, adverbs and adjectives, animal verbs, •reference style guide, reference wordsJargon and abbreviations, formal English, forward •slash, job application style guide
…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!
Written by teachers for teachers
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SECONDARY ENGLISH TEACHER RESOURCES
3 NEW TITLES COMING SOON
Modified, curriculum-focused resources for lower-level literacy students.
FREE
NEW
NEW
NEW
NEW
Blak
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Red
Hot
Writ
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Idea
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pag
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Blak
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The tasks in this series vary in style and purpose and include short narratives, medical and crime reports, radio scripts, advertisements, lists, biographies, cartoon dialogue and press releases. Most units also include an activity that will encourage students to use and explore correct spelling and grammar conventions and to illustrate some of their responses.
Blake’s Red Hot Writing Ideas contains a great range of challenging tasks. Each linked to an illustration that will encourage students to think about writing in diverse ways.
BOOK 1Topics include:
Celebrity scoop - writing profiles, magazine articles•Lone surfer - radio transcripts, editing skills•War zone - letter writing, question poems•Smellathon – prepositions, procedural text•Evidence of crime - formal report writing•Rules, rules, rules – verbs, newspaper letters•The hard sell – persuasive text, exclamations•In your worst dreams – editing spelling, inventing characters•
...plus more!
BOOK 2
Topics include:Doped up on the dais – writing for a website, dictionary task•Symbols and journeys – blog text, brainstorming•Talent quest – biography, speech bubbles•Diseased city – postcard text, writing a leaflet•Have a Punky Xmas! – festival customs, similes, card messages•Showground school – accounts, designing a school•Speed machine – recounts, setting a scene•CSI – sorting out the clues, report writing•
...plus more!
BOOK 3
Topics include:The laptop of luxury – scenarios and letters•Germs on the loose – public notices and inventing diseases•Hamburgerlicious – writing a menu, and describing food•The kindergarten kook – short stories and writing instructions•Thinking like a film director – storyboards, captions and scripts•Hot wheels – adjectives, dialogue, onomatopoeia•Instant world – packaging text, logos, writing warnings•Alone – story genres, describing loneliness, letter writing•
...plus more!
BOOK 4
Topics include:Transformations – writing a recipe, billboard advertising text •From another world - front page article, identification card text•Don’t underestimate me - email conventions, alternatives to ‘said’ •Big Brother - writing rules, letter to the editor •Beach tales - Ezra Pound Couplets, mind mapping, annotated drawing •People and their pets - haiku poetry, writing from a pet’s point of view•Organising a marathon - a ‘To Do’ list, creating publicity text, speeches •Soccer star - writing a coach’s team address, radio commentary•
...plus more!
Middle Years Library and Research Skills Junior RRP:$39.95
Achieve! Structuring Your Writing includes activities that will help students to make their writing more interesting. The unit of work focus on analysing and developing different types of narratives, paragraphing, using imagery and learning about formal writing devices.
Topics include: Dual narratives•Order and sequence•Circular narratives•Linear and non-linear narratives•
Structuring information•Sentence structures •Paragraphing•Structuring through themes and images •Structuring formal writing•
...plus more!Achieve! Essential Writing Skills teaches the use of common grammatical constructions and devices. The units of work focus on using capital, lower case letters, full stops, question marks and apostrophes as well as writing simple, compound and complex sentences and subject-verb agreement.
Topics include: Using short, simple sentences •Using upper and lower case letters •Capital letters and full stops •Compound sentences with common conjunctions •Question marks•
Plan, draft and organise •Verb tense and subject-verb agreement •Logical sequencing •Complex sentences •Apostrophes•
...plus more!
Achieve! Reading and Writing for Exams and Tests provides a range of tasks that explore the types of questions that are commonly used for assessing students. The units of work focus on: improving writing skills, selecting and using quotations appropriately, analysis and comparative writing skills and planning for writing.
Topics include: Writing descriptions •Writing to describe, inform, sell and advise •Writing for an audience •Improving your vocabulary •
Using interpretive skills•Analysing language devices•Comparing two texts•Purpose and viewpoint•Selecting information and using quotations•
...plus more!
Self-contained activities to improve library and research skills.The activities in this series will allow lower secondary students to familiarise themselves with their new high school library and refine their research skills, taking them further along the path to becoming independent learners. Each lesson is designed to last approximately 30–40 minutes and can be used by students with minimal input from the teacher or librarian.BOOK 1Topics include:
Arrangements of books •on library shelves Types of resources •available Parts of a book •Using the catalogue•
BOOK 2Topics include:
Sourcing information•Using catalogues•Shelf order•Dewey decimal system•Indexes and bibliography•
Developing Literacy for High Schools Junior – Middle RRP:$39.95
Photocopiable literacy activities suitable for Years 7–10; with the level of task difficulty increasing from book one through to book three.Spelling patterns, rules and exceptions, common root words and the parts of language are explored in a diverse range of activity types that will provide students with transferable spelling skills. Each two-page unit is divided into three sections that consists of a starter activity, a consolidation task to reinforce the main concepts and skills and an extension activity.
BOOK 1Topics include:
Plurals •‘ie’ and ‘ei’ rules •Compound words •Vowel phonemes•Common homophones•Changing verbs to nouns •Word histories and roots •Long, short and hidden vowels•Using the quartiles of a dictionary•
...plus more!
BOOK 2Topics include:
Foul vowels •Plural patterns•Apostrophes •Homophones•Suffixes and Prefixes •Drawing on word •structures to improve spellingLexical patterns in new vocabulary •Devise own ways to improve spelling •
…plus more!
BOOK 3Topics include:
Silent letters •Dropping the ‘e’ •Spelling strategies•High-frequency words•Knowledge of prefixes, •suffixes, homonyms and homographsWord families and word origins•Mnemonics to remember difficult spellings •Common spelling patterns and conventions •
…plus more!
Blake’s Red Hot Writing Ideas for Years 7–10 Junior – Middle RRP:$39.95
100% Photocopiable FREE book with every order
Achieve! EnglishModified, curriculum-focused resources for lower-level literacy students.The Achieve! series of English titles has been developed for teachers who require additional activities for students who are struggling with literacy in years 7–10 and have a reading age of 6 to 9 years. Teachers can readily edit the pages to customise the material for individual students or classes and the curriculum requirements of your State. Some activities are more challenging than others and teachers should read the prior skills sections of the teacher’s notes to prepare their students for each unit of work
Junior RRP:$49.95
Achieve! Using Phonics is useful for students who have acquired some reading skills but need to be taught a range of sound patterns to make further progress. Each unit focuses on a particular sound or skill, and the units increase in level of difficulty.
Achieve! Punctuation includes a variety of contexts in which students can consolidate their understanding of the most commonly used punctuation marks. They will also practise integrating punctuation into their own writing.
Achieve! Reading for Meaning contains a range of text types for students to study and analyse. These include information and instructional texts, recounts, film reviews, texts that present arguments, scripts and poetry.
Topics include: Adding endings and beginnings•Blending consonants•Working with ‘ie’, ‘ei’, ‘ea’, ‘oo’ •and ‘ee’Vowels•Silent letters•Syllable linking•Compound words•
Synonyms and antonyms•Vowel sounds and ‘r’•Checking spelling•Triple blends and syllables•Silent letters•Words with ‘gue’ or ‘que’•Soft and hard sounds•Prefixes and suffixes•
...plus more!
Topics include: What are sentences? •Capital letters and full stops•Beginnings and endings•Letters and emails•Question and exclamation marks•Headlines, commas and clauses•The apostrophe•
Plurals and apostrophes•Direct, indirect and reported speech•Speech marks and other punctuation •Writing a report•Presenting speech in different ways•The colon, semicolon, hyphen, dash •and brackets
...plus more!
Topics include: Features of informational text •Scanning and summarising skills•Differences between facts and opinion •Analysing persuasive text •Topic sentences •The language of advertisements •Creating instructional texts•Writing and reading instructions •Explanatory texts and their purpose •
Finding information •Recounts and biography•Getting the order right•Film reviews and finding evidence •Brainstorming ideas •Developing an argument •Making quick notes •Connectives •What is a narrative? •Playscripts and poetry•
...plus more!
Topics include: Creating characters•Using connectives•Creating images•Style and purpose in text•Writing in sequence•Drafting your work •Crafting a poem •A story model and •the story wheel
Junior RRP:$39.95Achieve! English
Achieve! Developing Writing activities focus on word types and uses, ways of organising sentences and paragraphs to create variety in writing, story and recount planning and ideas for creating poetry and prose.
Adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs and •conjunctions Extending sentences and adding further detail •Reordering sentences and sentence variation •Planning writing for different purposes •The features of informational texts •Planning and writing a recount•
Creating, writing and linking paragraphs •Story planning•Endings and timelines of events•
...plus more!
Note taking•Assignment skills•Using the Internet•Website design and structure•Reliability of online information•Searching for information online•Copyright and plagiarism•
...plus more!
Writing a fiction review•Bibliographies •Encyclopedias, Atlases, •dictionaries and thesauruses Note taking •How to do an assignment•
...plus more!
BOOK 1Topics include:
Earth Sciences•Materials and their properties•Media presentations of issues•
This series is a collection of 10 hypothetical scenarios across a range of challenging topics. It is designed to encourage students to use problem-solving techniques and logical reasoning, and to consolidate and test their comprehension and writing skills. Each book includes teacher notes which provide a background briefing, related activities and sample answers and photocopiable information sheets to help students solve the mystery.
Solve It! Mysteries for Enquiring Minds Self-contained mysteries and open-ended activities in a range of challenging topics.
Junior RRP:$39.95
Road safety•Body systems•Computer viruses•
...plus more!
BOOK 2Topics include:
Forensic testing•Fraud•Computer systems•
Industrial espionage•Weather prediction•Dinosaur fossils•
...plus more!
Quality resources for busy teachers
BOOK 1Topics include:
Attitudes to poetry•Sound devices•Personification, clichés, hyperbole•
…plus more!
BOOK 2Topics include:
Poetry and music•Poetry of ancient civilisations•Postmodernism•
…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. The exercises will emphasise and illustrate the presence of poetry in nursery rhymes, greeting cards, song lyrics, advertising, graffiti and everyday speech.
Poetry Analysis Students will recognise the features of poetry, critically analyse a specific poem and appreciate a range of poetic styles.
Junior – Middle RRP:$39.95
BOOK 1Topics include:
Question poems•Haiku – from Japan with love•Long and short poems•Pattern poems•Alphabet poems•Diamante poems•Ballads•Waterfall poems•Fun poems using similes•Getting ready for a poetry reading•
…plus more!
BOOK 2Topics include:
Note poems•Prose poems•Rhyming couplets•Doing a McGonagall•The Ode•Text message poems•Found poems•The Villanelle•Seven ways of seeing•A poetry reading•
…plus more!
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.
Kickstart Poetry Launch students into creating original poems in traditional and modern forms.
Junior – Middle RRP:$39.95
BOOK 1Topics include:
Adjectives, quotation marks, synonyms, antonyms•Verbs, auxiliary verbs, tense, jargon, abbreviations, •sports wordsPrepositions, 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!
This series of humorous, lower-level ability tasks build student confidence and knowledge of written essential skills.
Write Now! An engaging approach to learning grammar and spelling conventions
Junior – Middle RRP:$39.95
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 lettersConjunctions, clauses, quotation marks•Verbs, adverbs, hyphens, apostrophes•
…plus more!
BOOK 6Topics include:
Conjunctions, clauses, colons, semi colons and •commas, SBD’s, similes and metaphorsVerbs, adverbs and adjectives, animal verbs, •reference style guide, reference wordsJargon and abbreviations, formal English, forward •slash, job application style guide
…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!
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Inside this catalogue you’ll find all your essential English and Drama resources from the much-loved Instant Lessons range, including brand new Blake’s Red Hot Writing Ideas and Achieve! English.
Searching for great ideas to inspire your students to write? Blake’s Red Hot Writing Ideas contains a great range of challenging tasks. Each linked to an illustration that will encourage students to think about writing in diverse ways.
Achieve! English has been designed and written for secondary students who have low-level literacy skills and require modified classroom activities to fully participate in the curriculum. Students will experience success as they work alongside their classmates on curriculum-related material that is tailored for their literacy needs.
You have the option of viewing these new resources on a FREE 30-Day Preview:
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Blake EDUCATION
CatalogueSecondary English
Please pass on to:
- Head of English
- ESL Coordinator
- English Teachers- Drama Department
- Staff Room
Blake Blakewww.blake.com.au
Secondary English Order Form EDUCATION
Instant Lessons in Senior English Senior RRP:$49.95
Students will express personal responses to texts, compose their own pieces and think critically about what they have seen and read.Instant Lessons in Senior English is a three-book series that contains material from a wide range of text types and offers activities that will encourage students to investigate context, purpose and audience, language forms and features.
BOOK 1Topics include:
Obituary•Explanation•Novel extract•Short story•Journal extract•Television review •Classified advertising•
…plus more!
BOOK 2SOLD OUT!
BOOK 3Topics include:
Website•Annual report•Scientific report•Email, Soliloquy•Novel extract•Encyclopedia entry•Radio transcript•
…plus more!
TITLE LEVEL ISBN RRP QTYAchieve! English Developing Writing Jnr/Mid 9781921015816 $39.95Achieve! English Punctuation Jnr/Mid 9781921015755 $39.95Achieve! English Reading for Meaning Jnr/Mid 9781921015823 $39.95Achieve! English Using Phonics Jnr/Mid 9781921015748 $39.95Achieve! Essential Writing Skills (coming soon) Jnr/Mid 9781921403408 $49.95Achieve! Reading and Writing For Exams and Tests (coming soon) Jnr/Mid 9781921403415 $49.95Achieve! Structuring Your Writing (coming soon) Jnr/Mid 9781921403392 $49.95Blake's Red Hot Writing Ideas for years 7–10 Book 1 Jnr/Mid 9781921403064 $39.95Blake's Red Hot Writing Ideas for years 7–10 Book 2 Jnr/Mid 9781921403071 $39.95Blake's Red Hot Writing Ideas for years 7–10 Book 3 Jnr/Mid 9781921403323 $39.95Blake's Red Hot Writing Ideas for years 7–10 Book 4 Jnr/Mid 9781921403330 $39.95Developing Literacy for High Schools Book 1 Jnr/Mid 9781921403019 $39.95Developing Literacy for High Schools Book 2 Jnr/Mid 9781921403026 $39.95Developing Literacy for High Schools Book 3 Jnr/Mid 9781921403033 $39.95English in Action Book 1 Jnr/Mid 9781921015540 $39.95English in Action Book 2 Jnr/Mid 9781921015557 $39.95Experiencing Drama Book 1 Jnr/Mid 9781865097312 $39.95Experiencing Drama Book 2 Jnr/Mid 9781865097329 $39.95Instant Lessons in Creative Writing Book 2 Mid/Snr 9781865096599 $39.95Instant Lessons in Creative Writing Book 3 Mid/Snr 9781865096605 $39.95Instant Lessons in Junior English Book 2 Jnr/Mid 9781865096575 $39.95Instant Lessons in Senior English Book 1 Snr 9781876133894 $49.95Instant Lessons in Senior English Book 3 Snr 9781876133917 $49.95Kickstart Poetry Book 1 Jnr 9781921015656 $39.95Kickstart Poetry Book 2 Mid 9781921015663 $39.95Middle Years Library & Research Skills–1 Jnr 9781865097121 $39.95Middle Years Library & Research Skills–2 Jnr 9781865097138 $39.95More than Monologues Book 1 Snr 9781921015588 $57.50More than Monologues Book 2 Snr 9781921015595 $57.50Poetry Analysis Book 1 Jnr/Mid 9781865097169 $39.95Poetry Analysis Book 2 Jnr/Mid 9781865097176 $39.95Solve It! Mysteries for Enquiring Minds Book 1 Jnr 9781921015304 $39.95Solve It! Mysteries for Enquiring Minds Book 2 Jnr 9781921015311 $39.95Targeting Media–Newspapers & Magazines Mid 9781865095394 $39.95Targeting Media–Radio & Multimedia Mid 9781865095387 $39.95Targeting Media–Television & Film Mid 9781865095370 $39.95Targeting Text–Ideas & Issues Jnr 9781865095363 $39.95Targeting Text–Information Jnr 9781865095356 $39.95Targeting Text–Literature Jnr 9781865095349 $39.95Write Now!–Grammar, Language & Editing Skills Book 1 Jnr 9781921015328 $39.95 FREE!Write Now!–Grammar, Language & Editing Skills Book 2 Jnr 9781921015335 $39.95Write Now!–Grammar, Language & Editing Skills Book 3 Jnr/Mid 9781921015229 $39.95Write Now!–Grammar, Language & Editing Skills Book 4 Jnr/Mid 9781921015236 $39.95Write Now!–Grammar, Language & Editing Skills Book 5 Jnr/Mid 9781921015243 $39.95Write Now!–Grammar, Language & Editing Skills Book 6 Jnr/Mid 9781921015250 $39.95
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LiteratureTopics include:
Deadly Unna?•Webcrash – virtual worlds•Drama Texts•So Much To Tell You – the play•Haiku•
…plus more!
Learning the features and purpose of different text types is a fundamental skill for all students. This series develops students’ comprehension and writing skills using real texts as models, studying their particular features and scaffolding students’ own writing with structured teaching units. The book covers nine of the most common text types used by secondary school students.
Targeting Text Students will learn to recognise different types of text by their unique features.
InformationTopics include:
Computer technology•Explanation texts •An Interview with my Poppa – recount text•The Legend of the Bush – information report text•Flight: From Nature to Aeroplanes – explanation text•
…plus more!
Ideas & IssuesTopics include:
Radio interview•Essay types•Drama texts•Television and advertising•Responding to poetry•
…plus more!
Radio & MultimediaTopics include:
Radio news programmes, •advertisements and dramaEmail and the Internet•On-line print publications•Chat lines •
…plus more!
Newspapers & MagazinesTopics include:
News reports, feature articles•Columns and opinion pieces•Editorials and political cartoons•Letters to the editor•
…plus more!
Television & FilmTopics include:
News and current •affairs programmesLifestyle shows•Thrillers•Action and Science-Fiction films•
…plus more!
BOOK 1Topics include:
Character construction – Studying and •presenting different personalitiesActionary – A fun, fast-paced mime activity•Lexical sandwich – Improvisations with a •linguistic twistWhat a weekend – Six characters and •their wacky weekendsScenario creation – Script events from a series of pictures•Building stories – Collaborative storytelling and performing•
…plus more!
A range of practical and fun drama-based activities for English classes that will enhance students’ creativity, self-awareness and writing skills. They will also build self-esteem, communication and group work skills. Each practical activity comes complete with teacher’s notes and photocopiable activity pages, picture cards, word cards, and student journal work sheets.
English in ActionFun drama exercises to improve literacy and creativity.
Junior – Middle RRP:$39.95
BOOK 2Topics include:
Move it – A fun warm-up to get students moving•Pivotal items – Throw an unexpected item into a •scene and see what happensFlashcard dialogue – Incorporating words •into improvised dialoguePitch – Developing a persuasive pitch to sell an idea•Agendas – Two characters with different motivations talk it out•Opera score – Turning operatic duets into dramatic dialogue•What’s cooking? – Reading non-verbal language•
…plus more!
Junior RRP:$39.95
Students will learn to identify the structures and features of media texts and be encouraged to view these texts critically. The book includes background information on each text type; introductory lesson ideas and associated photocopiable work sheets as well as sample annotated texts outlining the structural and language features of the various formats.
Targeting Media Students learn to identify the structures and features of media texts and view them with a critical eye.
Middle RRP:$39.95
Instant Lessons in Creative Writing Middle – Senior RRP:$39.95
Simple and effective teaching of creative writing through easy-to-follow units of work.Each fully photocopiable work sheet in this series is aimed at having students focus on a particular aspect of creative writing such as language selection, literary devices, plot development and conflict, so that their final work is original and maintains audience interest. Also included are actual examples of student work, to provide your students with concrete examples of different short story types.
BOOK 1SOLD OUT!
BOOK 2Topics include:
Establishing voice •Story resolution •Finding inspiration •Figurative language •Balance and rhythm•Editing•
…plus more!
BOOK 3Topics include:
Inner monologue •Psychological studies •Anecdotes •Setting •Writing formats•Developing theme•
…plus more!
FREE book with every order
BOOK 1Topics include:
Poetry as performance •Tragedy and comedy •Case studies•Understanding theatre terms •
…plus more!
This series provides you with a flexible supplementary resource for your junior secondary students. Photocopiable work sheets cover a range of topics presented from practical and theoretical viewpoints. The aim of the activities is to integrate the strands of making drama, performing drama and critically appreciating drama through actively engaging students. Teacher guidelines are included containing selected answers, class safety tips, focus questions and extension ideas.
Experiencing DramaIntegrates the strands of making, performing and critically appreciating drama.
Junior – Middle RRP:$39.95
BOOK 2Topics include:
Spatial relationships •Celluloid to stage•Developing a physical lazzi •From the page to the stage•
…plus more!
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!
To prepare a performance, Drama students need more than just a script – they need tools to understand it. This exciting new 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 production notes for each play.
More than MonologuesPractical approaches to studying, interpreting, creating and staging a monologue or duologue.
Middle – Senior RRP:$57.50
BOOK 2Topics include:
Getting started•Photographs•Character, setting, •conflict and resolutionBasic writing guidelines •Observations •Autobiographical topics•
Occupational stories •inspired by interviewsChange of point of view•Stories told by eyewitnesses •Creating characters and monologues •Children’s stories from another perspective•
…plus more!
What are Instant Lessons?Instant Lessons are fully photocopiable books that contain timesaving and meaningful, curriculum-focused activities.The activities are useful: As pre-prepared tasks to complement your lessons For homework or revision As extension work As preparation for assessment When the regular teacher is absent
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Dear Teacher,
Inside this catalogue you’ll find all your essential English and Drama resources from the much-loved Instant Lessons range, including brand new Blake’s Red Hot Writing Ideas and Achieve! English.
Searching for great ideas to inspire your students to write? Blake’s Red Hot Writing Ideas contains a great range of challenging tasks. Each linked to an illustration that will encourage students to think about writing in diverse ways.
Achieve! English has been designed and written for secondary students who have low-level literacy skills and require modified classroom activities to fully participate in the curriculum. Students will experience success as they work alongside their classmates on curriculum-related material that is tailored for their literacy needs.
You have the option of viewing 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!
Plus, preview any resources and you’ll receive Write Now! Grammar Language and Editing Skills Book 1 (worth $39.95) absolutely FREE!
Happy teaching!
Jennifer GoughPublisher
FREE BOOKWITH EVERY ORDER!
VALUE $39.95
Blake EDUCATION
CatalogueSecondary English
Please pass on to:
- Head of English
- ESL Coordinator
- English Teachers- Drama Department
- Staff Room
Blake Blakewww.blake.com.au
Secondary English Order Form EDUCATION
Instant Lessons in Senior English Senior RRP:$49.95
Students will express personal responses to texts, compose their own pieces and think critically about what they have seen and read.Instant Lessons in Senior English is a three-book series that contains material from a wide range of text types and offers activities that will encourage students to investigate context, purpose and audience, language forms and features.
BOOK 1Topics include:
Obituary•Explanation•Novel extract•Short story•Journal extract•Television review •Classified advertising•
…plus more!
BOOK 2SOLD OUT!
BOOK 3Topics include:
Website•Annual report•Scientific report•Email, Soliloquy•Novel extract•Encyclopedia entry•Radio transcript•
…plus more!
TITLE LEVEL ISBN RRP QTYAchieve! English Developing Writing Jnr/Mid 9781921015816 $39.95Achieve! English Punctuation Jnr/Mid 9781921015755 $39.95Achieve! English Reading for Meaning Jnr/Mid 9781921015823 $39.95Achieve! English Using Phonics Jnr/Mid 9781921015748 $39.95Achieve! Essential Writing Skills (coming soon) Jnr/Mid 9781921403408 $49.95Achieve! Reading and Writing For Exams and Tests (coming soon) Jnr/Mid 9781921403415 $49.95Achieve! Structuring Your Writing (coming soon) Jnr/Mid 9781921403392 $49.95Blake's Red Hot Writing Ideas for years 7–10 Book 1 Jnr/Mid 9781921403064 $39.95Blake's Red Hot Writing Ideas for years 7–10 Book 2 Jnr/Mid 9781921403071 $39.95Blake's Red Hot Writing Ideas for years 7–10 Book 3 Jnr/Mid 9781921403323 $39.95Blake's Red Hot Writing Ideas for years 7–10 Book 4 Jnr/Mid 9781921403330 $39.95Developing Literacy for High Schools Book 1 Jnr/Mid 9781921403019 $39.95Developing Literacy for High Schools Book 2 Jnr/Mid 9781921403026 $39.95Developing Literacy for High Schools Book 3 Jnr/Mid 9781921403033 $39.95English in Action Book 1 Jnr/Mid 9781921015540 $39.95English in Action Book 2 Jnr/Mid 9781921015557 $39.95Experiencing Drama Book 1 Jnr/Mid 9781865097312 $39.95Experiencing Drama Book 2 Jnr/Mid 9781865097329 $39.95Instant Lessons in Creative Writing Book 2 Mid/Snr 9781865096599 $39.95Instant Lessons in Creative Writing Book 3 Mid/Snr 9781865096605 $39.95Instant Lessons in Junior English Book 2 Jnr/Mid 9781865096575 $39.95Instant Lessons in Senior English Book 1 Snr 9781876133894 $49.95Instant Lessons in Senior English Book 3 Snr 9781876133917 $49.95Kickstart Poetry Book 1 Jnr 9781921015656 $39.95Kickstart Poetry Book 2 Mid 9781921015663 $39.95Middle Years Library & Research Skills–1 Jnr 9781865097121 $39.95Middle Years Library & Research Skills–2 Jnr 9781865097138 $39.95More than Monologues Book 1 Snr 9781921015588 $57.50More than Monologues Book 2 Snr 9781921015595 $57.50Poetry Analysis Book 1 Jnr/Mid 9781865097169 $39.95Poetry Analysis Book 2 Jnr/Mid 9781865097176 $39.95Solve It! Mysteries for Enquiring Minds Book 1 Jnr 9781921015304 $39.95Solve It! Mysteries for Enquiring Minds Book 2 Jnr 9781921015311 $39.95Targeting Media–Newspapers & Magazines Mid 9781865095394 $39.95Targeting Media–Radio & Multimedia Mid 9781865095387 $39.95Targeting Media–Television & Film Mid 9781865095370 $39.95Targeting Text–Ideas & Issues Jnr 9781865095363 $39.95Targeting Text–Information Jnr 9781865095356 $39.95Targeting Text–Literature Jnr 9781865095349 $39.95Write Now!–Grammar, Language & Editing Skills Book 1 Jnr 9781921015328 $39.95 FREE!Write Now!–Grammar, Language & Editing Skills Book 2 Jnr 9781921015335 $39.95Write Now!–Grammar, Language & Editing Skills Book 3 Jnr/Mid 9781921015229 $39.95Write Now!–Grammar, Language & Editing Skills Book 4 Jnr/Mid 9781921015236 $39.95Write Now!–Grammar, Language & Editing Skills Book 5 Jnr/Mid 9781921015243 $39.95Write Now!–Grammar, Language & Editing Skills Book 6 Jnr/Mid 9781921015250 $39.95
TOTAL: $(All prices inlcude GST and are subject to change without notice.)
5 EASY WAYS TO ORDER
with every order!value $39.95*
Your local Blake Education Representative is:
LiteratureTopics include:
Deadly Unna?•Webcrash – virtual worlds•Drama Texts•So Much To Tell You – the play•Haiku•
…plus more!
Learning the features and purpose of different text types is a fundamental skill for all students. This series develops students’ comprehension and writing skills using real texts as models, studying their particular features and scaffolding students’ own writing with structured teaching units. The book covers nine of the most common text types used by secondary school students.
Targeting Text Students will learn to recognise different types of text by their unique features.
InformationTopics include:
Computer technology•Explanation texts •An Interview with my Poppa – recount text•The Legend of the Bush – information report text•Flight: From Nature to Aeroplanes – explanation text•
…plus more!
Ideas & IssuesTopics include:
Radio interview•Essay types•Drama texts•Television and advertising•Responding to poetry•
…plus more!
Radio & MultimediaTopics include:
Radio news programmes, •advertisements and dramaEmail and the Internet•On-line print publications•Chat lines •
…plus more!
Newspapers & MagazinesTopics include:
News reports, feature articles•Columns and opinion pieces•Editorials and political cartoons•Letters to the editor•
…plus more!
Television & FilmTopics include:
News and current •affairs programmesLifestyle shows•Thrillers•Action and Science-Fiction films•
…plus more!
BOOK 1Topics include:
Character construction – Studying and •presenting different personalitiesActionary – A fun, fast-paced mime activity•Lexical sandwich – Improvisations with a •linguistic twistWhat a weekend – Six characters and •their wacky weekendsScenario creation – Script events from a series of pictures•Building stories – Collaborative storytelling and performing•
…plus more!
A range of practical and fun drama-based activities for English classes that will enhance students’ creativity, self-awareness and writing skills. They will also build self-esteem, communication and group work skills. Each practical activity comes complete with teacher’s notes and photocopiable activity pages, picture cards, word cards, and student journal work sheets.
English in ActionFun drama exercises to improve literacy and creativity.
Junior – Middle RRP:$39.95
BOOK 2Topics include:
Move it – A fun warm-up to get students moving•Pivotal items – Throw an unexpected item into a •scene and see what happensFlashcard dialogue – Incorporating words •into improvised dialoguePitch – Developing a persuasive pitch to sell an idea•Agendas – Two characters with different motivations talk it out•Opera score – Turning operatic duets into dramatic dialogue•What’s cooking? – Reading non-verbal language•
…plus more!
Junior RRP:$39.95
Students will learn to identify the structures and features of media texts and be encouraged to view these texts critically. The book includes background information on each text type; introductory lesson ideas and associated photocopiable work sheets as well as sample annotated texts outlining the structural and language features of the various formats.
Targeting Media Students learn to identify the structures and features of media texts and view them with a critical eye.
Middle RRP:$39.95
Instant Lessons in Creative Writing Middle – Senior RRP:$39.95
Simple and effective teaching of creative writing through easy-to-follow units of work.Each fully photocopiable work sheet in this series is aimed at having students focus on a particular aspect of creative writing such as language selection, literary devices, plot development and conflict, so that their final work is original and maintains audience interest. Also included are actual examples of student work, to provide your students with concrete examples of different short story types.
BOOK 1SOLD OUT!
BOOK 2Topics include:
Establishing voice •Story resolution •Finding inspiration •Figurative language •Balance and rhythm•Editing•
…plus more!
BOOK 3Topics include:
Inner monologue •Psychological studies •Anecdotes •Setting •Writing formats•Developing theme•
…plus more!
FREE book with every order
BOOK 1Topics include:
Poetry as performance •Tragedy and comedy •Case studies•Understanding theatre terms •
…plus more!
This series provides you with a flexible supplementary resource for your junior secondary students. Photocopiable work sheets cover a range of topics presented from practical and theoretical viewpoints. The aim of the activities is to integrate the strands of making drama, performing drama and critically appreciating drama through actively engaging students. Teacher guidelines are included containing selected answers, class safety tips, focus questions and extension ideas.
Experiencing DramaIntegrates the strands of making, performing and critically appreciating drama.
Junior – Middle RRP:$39.95
BOOK 2Topics include:
Spatial relationships •Celluloid to stage•Developing a physical lazzi •From the page to the stage•
…plus more!
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!
To prepare a performance, Drama students need more than just a script – they need tools to understand it. This exciting new 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 production notes for each play.
More than MonologuesPractical approaches to studying, interpreting, creating and staging a monologue or duologue.
Middle – Senior RRP:$57.50
BOOK 2Topics include:
Getting started•Photographs•Character, setting, •conflict and resolutionBasic writing guidelines •Observations •Autobiographical topics•
Occupational stories •inspired by interviewsChange of point of view•Stories told by eyewitnesses •Creating characters and monologues •Children’s stories from another perspective•
…plus more!
What are Instant Lessons?Instant Lessons are fully photocopiable books that contain timesaving and meaningful, curriculum-focused activities.The activities are useful: As pre-prepared tasks to complement your lessons For homework or revision As extension work As preparation for assessment When the regular teacher is absent
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Inside this catalogue you’ll find all your essential English and Drama resources from the much-loved Instant Lessons range, including brand new Blake’s Red Hot Writing Ideas and Achieve! English.
Searching for great ideas to inspire your students to write? Blake’s Red Hot Writing Ideas contains a great range of challenging tasks. Each linked to an illustration that will encourage students to think about writing in diverse ways.
Achieve! English has been designed and written for secondary students who have low-level literacy skills and require modified classroom activities to fully participate in the curriculum. Students will experience success as they work alongside their classmates on curriculum-related material that is tailored for their literacy needs.
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Instant Lessons in Senior English Senior RRP:$49.95
Students will express personal responses to texts, compose their own pieces and think critically about what they have seen and read.Instant Lessons in Senior English is a three-book series that contains material from a wide range of text types and offers activities that will encourage students to investigate context, purpose and audience, language forms and features.
BOOK 1Topics include:
Obituary•Explanation•Novel extract•Short story•Journal extract•Television review •Classified advertising•
…plus more!
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BOOK 3Topics include:
Website•Annual report•Scientific report•Email, Soliloquy•Novel extract•Encyclopedia entry•Radio transcript•
…plus more!
TITLE LEVEL ISBN RRP QTYAchieve! English Developing Writing Jnr/Mid 9781921015816 $39.95Achieve! English Punctuation Jnr/Mid 9781921015755 $39.95Achieve! English Reading for Meaning Jnr/Mid 9781921015823 $39.95Achieve! English Using Phonics Jnr/Mid 9781921015748 $39.95Achieve! Essential Writing Skills (coming soon) Jnr/Mid 9781921403408 $49.95Achieve! Reading and Writing For Exams and Tests (coming soon) Jnr/Mid 9781921403415 $49.95Achieve! Structuring Your Writing (coming soon) Jnr/Mid 9781921403392 $49.95Blake's Red Hot Writing Ideas for years 7–10 Book 1 Jnr/Mid 9781921403064 $39.95Blake's Red Hot Writing Ideas for years 7–10 Book 2 Jnr/Mid 9781921403071 $39.95Blake's Red Hot Writing Ideas for years 7–10 Book 3 Jnr/Mid 9781921403323 $39.95Blake's Red Hot Writing Ideas for years 7–10 Book 4 Jnr/Mid 9781921403330 $39.95Developing Literacy for High Schools Book 1 Jnr/Mid 9781921403019 $39.95Developing Literacy for High Schools Book 2 Jnr/Mid 9781921403026 $39.95Developing Literacy for High Schools Book 3 Jnr/Mid 9781921403033 $39.95English in Action Book 1 Jnr/Mid 9781921015540 $39.95English in Action Book 2 Jnr/Mid 9781921015557 $39.95Experiencing Drama Book 1 Jnr/Mid 9781865097312 $39.95Experiencing Drama Book 2 Jnr/Mid 9781865097329 $39.95Instant Lessons in Creative Writing Book 2 Mid/Snr 9781865096599 $39.95Instant Lessons in Creative Writing Book 3 Mid/Snr 9781865096605 $39.95Instant Lessons in Junior English Book 2 Jnr/Mid 9781865096575 $39.95Instant Lessons in Senior English Book 1 Snr 9781876133894 $49.95Instant Lessons in Senior English Book 3 Snr 9781876133917 $49.95Kickstart Poetry Book 1 Jnr 9781921015656 $39.95Kickstart Poetry Book 2 Mid 9781921015663 $39.95Middle Years Library & Research Skills–1 Jnr 9781865097121 $39.95Middle Years Library & Research Skills–2 Jnr 9781865097138 $39.95More than Monologues Book 1 Snr 9781921015588 $57.50More than Monologues Book 2 Snr 9781921015595 $57.50Poetry Analysis Book 1 Jnr/Mid 9781865097169 $39.95Poetry Analysis Book 2 Jnr/Mid 9781865097176 $39.95Solve It! Mysteries for Enquiring Minds Book 1 Jnr 9781921015304 $39.95Solve It! Mysteries for Enquiring Minds Book 2 Jnr 9781921015311 $39.95Targeting Media–Newspapers & Magazines Mid 9781865095394 $39.95Targeting Media–Radio & Multimedia Mid 9781865095387 $39.95Targeting Media–Television & Film Mid 9781865095370 $39.95Targeting Text–Ideas & Issues Jnr 9781865095363 $39.95Targeting Text–Information Jnr 9781865095356 $39.95Targeting Text–Literature Jnr 9781865095349 $39.95Write Now!–Grammar, Language & Editing Skills Book 1 Jnr 9781921015328 $39.95 FREE!Write Now!–Grammar, Language & Editing Skills Book 2 Jnr 9781921015335 $39.95Write Now!–Grammar, Language & Editing Skills Book 3 Jnr/Mid 9781921015229 $39.95Write Now!–Grammar, Language & Editing Skills Book 4 Jnr/Mid 9781921015236 $39.95Write Now!–Grammar, Language & Editing Skills Book 5 Jnr/Mid 9781921015243 $39.95Write Now!–Grammar, Language & Editing Skills Book 6 Jnr/Mid 9781921015250 $39.95
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LiteratureTopics include:
Deadly Unna?•Webcrash – virtual worlds•Drama Texts•So Much To Tell You – the play•Haiku•
…plus more!
Learning the features and purpose of different text types is a fundamental skill for all students. This series develops students’ comprehension and writing skills using real texts as models, studying their particular features and scaffolding students’ own writing with structured teaching units. The book covers nine of the most common text types used by secondary school students.
Targeting Text Students will learn to recognise different types of text by their unique features.
InformationTopics include:
Computer technology•Explanation texts •An Interview with my Poppa – recount text•The Legend of the Bush – information report text•Flight: From Nature to Aeroplanes – explanation text•
…plus more!
Ideas & IssuesTopics include:
Radio interview•Essay types•Drama texts•Television and advertising•Responding to poetry•
…plus more!
Radio & MultimediaTopics include:
Radio news programmes, •advertisements and dramaEmail and the Internet•On-line print publications•Chat lines •
…plus more!
Newspapers & MagazinesTopics include:
News reports, feature articles•Columns and opinion pieces•Editorials and political cartoons•Letters to the editor•
…plus more!
Television & FilmTopics include:
News and current •affairs programmesLifestyle shows•Thrillers•Action and Science-Fiction films•
…plus more!
BOOK 1Topics include:
Character construction – Studying and •presenting different personalitiesActionary – A fun, fast-paced mime activity•Lexical sandwich – Improvisations with a •linguistic twistWhat a weekend – Six characters and •their wacky weekendsScenario creation – Script events from a series of pictures•Building stories – Collaborative storytelling and performing•
…plus more!
A range of practical and fun drama-based activities for English classes that will enhance students’ creativity, self-awareness and writing skills. They will also build self-esteem, communication and group work skills. Each practical activity comes complete with teacher’s notes and photocopiable activity pages, picture cards, word cards, and student journal work sheets.
English in ActionFun drama exercises to improve literacy and creativity.
Junior – Middle RRP:$39.95
BOOK 2Topics include:
Move it – A fun warm-up to get students moving•Pivotal items – Throw an unexpected item into a •scene and see what happensFlashcard dialogue – Incorporating words •into improvised dialoguePitch – Developing a persuasive pitch to sell an idea•Agendas – Two characters with different motivations talk it out•Opera score – Turning operatic duets into dramatic dialogue•What’s cooking? – Reading non-verbal language•
…plus more!
Junior RRP:$39.95
Students will learn to identify the structures and features of media texts and be encouraged to view these texts critically. The book includes background information on each text type; introductory lesson ideas and associated photocopiable work sheets as well as sample annotated texts outlining the structural and language features of the various formats.
Targeting Media Students learn to identify the structures and features of media texts and view them with a critical eye.
Middle RRP:$39.95
Instant Lessons in Creative Writing Middle – Senior RRP:$39.95
Simple and effective teaching of creative writing through easy-to-follow units of work.Each fully photocopiable work sheet in this series is aimed at having students focus on a particular aspect of creative writing such as language selection, literary devices, plot development and conflict, so that their final work is original and maintains audience interest. Also included are actual examples of student work, to provide your students with concrete examples of different short story types.
BOOK 1SOLD OUT!
BOOK 2Topics include:
Establishing voice •Story resolution •Finding inspiration •Figurative language •Balance and rhythm•Editing•
…plus more!
BOOK 3Topics include:
Inner monologue •Psychological studies •Anecdotes •Setting •Writing formats•Developing theme•
…plus more!
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BOOK 1Topics include:
Poetry as performance •Tragedy and comedy •Case studies•Understanding theatre terms •
…plus more!
This series provides you with a flexible supplementary resource for your junior secondary students. Photocopiable work sheets cover a range of topics presented from practical and theoretical viewpoints. The aim of the activities is to integrate the strands of making drama, performing drama and critically appreciating drama through actively engaging students. Teacher guidelines are included containing selected answers, class safety tips, focus questions and extension ideas.
Experiencing DramaIntegrates the strands of making, performing and critically appreciating drama.
Junior – Middle RRP:$39.95
BOOK 2Topics include:
Spatial relationships •Celluloid to stage•Developing a physical lazzi •From the page to the stage•
…plus more!
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!
To prepare a performance, Drama students need more than just a script – they need tools to understand it. This exciting new 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 production notes for each play.
More than MonologuesPractical approaches to studying, interpreting, creating and staging a monologue or duologue.
Middle – Senior RRP:$57.50
BOOK 2Topics include:
Getting started•Photographs•Character, setting, •conflict and resolutionBasic writing guidelines •Observations •Autobiographical topics•
Occupational stories •inspired by interviewsChange of point of view•Stories told by eyewitnesses •Creating characters and monologues •Children’s stories from another perspective•
…plus more!
What are Instant Lessons?Instant Lessons are fully photocopiable books that contain timesaving and meaningful, curriculum-focused activities.The activities are useful: As pre-prepared tasks to complement your lessons For homework or revision As extension work As preparation for assessment When the regular teacher is absent
Quality, photocopiable resourcesfor busy teachers
ABN 50 074 266 023
FAX
PHONE
WEB
Blake Education108 Main RoadClayton SouthVIC 3169
03 9558 5433
03 9558 4433
www.blake.com.au
NEW
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FREE BOOK