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Insight Issues: Junior Years 2nd ed – For 2026

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Build essential media literacy and persuasive writing skills
Designed for Years 7 and 8 students, Insight Issues: Junior Years helps students confidently analyse and respond to news media, contemporary issues and persuasive texts.

Updated with new media texts on topical issues, the 2nd edition of Insight Issues: Junior Years equips students with the skills and strategies they need to think critically, write persuasively and engage with current events.


Why students will benefit:

  • Engaging contemporary content: Explore real-world issues through accessible and relevant texts.
  • Step-by-step skill building: Develop comprehension, analysis and persuasive writing techniques progressively.
  • Practical and stimulating: Cloze exercises, word banks and scaffolded writing tasks provide hands-on learning.
  • Strategies to enhance confidence and clarity: Sample sentences and model paragraphs guide students towards clear, fluent expression.

Set students up for success in media literacy and persuasive writing with Insight Issues: Junior Years!

Build essential media literacy and persuasive writing skills
Designed for Years 7 and 8 students, Insight Issues: Junior Years helps students confidently analyse and respond to news media, contemporary issues and persuasive texts.

Updated with new media texts on topical issues, the 2nd edition of Insight Issues: Junior Years equips students with the skills and strategies they need to think critically, write persuasively and engage with current events.


Why students will benefit:

  • Engaging contemporary content: Explore real-world issues through accessible and relevant texts.
  • Step-by-step skill building: Develop comprehension, analysis and persuasive writing techniques progressively.
  • Practical and stimulating: Cloze exercises, word banks and scaffolded writing tasks provide hands-on learning.
  • Strategies to enhance confidence and clarity: Sample sentences and model paragraphs guide students towards clear, fluent expression.

Set students up for success in media literacy and persuasive writing with Insight Issues: Junior Years!

  • Targeted work units based on engaging texts about contemporary issues
  • Systematic development of the skills needed to work confidently with the key concepts and metalanguage associated with this area of English study
  • An emphasis on accessibility and the visual presentation of information, catering to a variety of ability levels and learning styles
  • Strategies for developing strong written skills, assisting students to write well-structured and fluent analyses, as well as to express their own well-supported opinions on issues.

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