By encouraging frequent focused practice, Insight’s Daily Language Practice series helps students to rehearse and retain core English skills, solidifying their foundation for further studies.

EACH TITLE FEATURES:

• Forty weeks of ten-minute daily activities that develop grammar, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary and reading comprehension skills
• Varied text types and engaging topics for reading comprehension tasks
• A wide variety of activity types, including NAPLAN-style questions
• Progress charts to help identify areas for improvement
• Vocabulary sheets to track and reinforce retention of new words
• Complete answer sheets, available online.

Supporting the Australian Curriculum for English, Insight’s Daily Writing & Editing Practice series is designed to develop and reinforce students’ writing and editing skills through targeted daily exercises.

• Work units based on engaging texts about contemporary issues
• Scaffolded activities that develop students’ analytical and written skills progressively
• A variety of text-creation activities, supported by writing tools such as word and phrase banks, sentence starters, cloze exercises, templates and models.

• a vibrant full-colour design
• a variety of text types, including contemporary and traditional fiction, interactive graphic novels, spoken word poems, songs, films and media texts
• accessible explanations, questions and activities
• dynamic new and updated content from a range of sources, eras and cultures to encourage progressive development of students’ skills across each book.

EACH UNIT INCLUDES:

• comprehension and discussion questions, including NAPLAN-style ‘language conventions’ questions
• fill-in exercises and activities building grammar, punctuation, spelling and vocabulary skills, suitable for homework or in-class completion
• three text creation options, in different modes, to deepen students’ understanding and offer a wide choice of summative assessment tasks.

Aimed at students in Years 9 and 10 and providing excellent preparation for senior English studies, Insight Issues: For & Against focuses on understanding and analysing argument and persuasive language.

Each of the book’s eight units begins with two texts that present opposing points of view on an issue. A variety of exercises and activities develop students’ skills in writing analytically about argument and persuasive language, and in presenting their own point of view.

Each unit focuses on a different aspect of persuasive texts and introduces metalanguage in an accessible and purposeful way.

THE BOOK FEATURES:

• Eight work units, based on a range of stimulating and engaging persuasive texts
• Scaffolded activities and exercises designed to progressively develop analytical and writing skills
• Extension questions and activities
• One unit focused on presenting a point of view, both orally and in writing, drawing on knowledge and skills developed throughout the book.

• Clear, concise explanations that make concepts easy to understand
• Low-, mid- and high-demand worksheets and spelling lists
• Photocopiable tests to assess spelling, vocabulary, grammar, punctuation and writing skills
• Activities for homework or in-class completion.

PRACTICE AND ACHIEVE STUDENT BOOKS 1 & 2
Ideal as homework activities or for in-class completion, the Practise and Achieve Student Books give students valuable practice in the fundamental grammar, punctuation, spelling and vocabulary skills underpinning all English study.

ACHIEVE WORKSHEETS STUDENT BOOKS 1 & 2
Each Achieve Worksheets Student Book provides 36 grammar and punctuation worksheets as well as 36 spelling lists. These can be used for weekly tests, as classwork or for homework practice.