Student Book + obook

Oxford English is a new series for the Australian Curriculum: English. This blended print and digital title has a strong emphasis on the language and literacy strands of the Australian Curriculum: English and provides students with a firm grounding in grammar and language use.

The obook is a cloud-based web-book available anywhere, anytime, on any device, navigated by topic or by ‘page view’. As well as containing the student text, this obook offers additional literature units focusing on texts relevant to the cross-curriculum priorities, as well as popular classic and contemporary texts.

The Oxford English series offers:

• integrated coverage of the Australian Curriculum: English for years 7–9
• 25 focused units per book, covering grammar, punctuation, comprehension, reading, writing, spelling and vocabulary
• a wealth of engaging literary, non-literary and digital texts used as stimulus
• a flexible format with room for student answers in the write-in workbooks, or in the accompanying digital obooks
• extensive literature material including a range of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Asian texts, as well as those that link to the sustainability cross-curricular priority.

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Part 1 Using words — exploring parts of speech

Unit 1 Nouns name — collective and compound nouns
Unit 2 Nouns name — number agreement in sentences
Unit 3 Adjectives add — compound and other types of adjectives
Unit 4 Adjectives add — positive, comparative and superlative adjectives
Unit 5 Pronouns in place — different types of pronouns
Unit 6 Verbs alive — subject and verb must agree
Unit 7 Verbs alive — the verb ‘to be’, continuous and perfect tenses
Unit 8 Actively adverbs — positive, comparative and superlative adverbs
Unit 9 Preposition position — useful tips and helpful hints
Unit 10 Conjunctions connect — coordinating and subordinating conjunctions

Part 2 Building sentences — organising words and creating sentences

Unit 11 Sorting sentences — compound and complex sentences
Unit 12 Sorting sentences — ambiguous and run-on sentences, and sentence fragments
Unit 13 Finding phrases — prepositional and participial phrases
Unit 14 Capturing clauses — noun, adjectival and adverbial clauses

Part 3 Exploring language in use — using punctuation and other language devices

Unit 15 Punctuation punch — dashes, brackets and ellipsis points
Unit 16 Punctuation punch — quotation marks for special words and expressions
Unit 17 The world of words — alliteration, assonance and onomatopoeia
Unit 18 The world of words — similes, metaphors, personification and hyperbole
Unit 19 The world of words — shades of meaning, allusions and modality
Unit 20 Handling homonyms — what homonyms are and how to use them

Part 4 Creating texts — composing texts and using text features

Unit 21 Spelling success — confusing and challenging words
Unit 22 Text tips — purpose, audience and register
Unit 23 Text tips — developing descriptions
Unit 24 Text tips — narrative writing resources
Unit 25 Text tips — pinpoint persuasive writing

obook only content

Enrich Literature Units

Maralinga, the Anangu Story
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Inanimate Alice
Wall.e
The Binna Binna Man
Blueback
The Dream of the Thylacine
Sold
The Knife of Never Letting Go
The Highwayman
Antipodes: poetic responses

Paul Grover has been a teacher and Head Teacher of English and History in NSW high schools for more than 35 years. He has worked as a Supervisor of Marking and Coordinating Supervisor of Marking in HSC English for the NSW Board of Studies for more than ten years, and has been an active member of the English Teachers Association of NSW, regularly presenting workshops at local, regional, state and national conferences. In 2011 Paul was awarded a Quality Teaching Award from the Riverina Department of Education and Communities, and a NSW Professional Teaching Council Professional Excellence Award. He has authored and edited a large number of books for teachers and students in English and History, most recently the Oxford English series for the Australian Curriculum. Currently Paul is Lecturer in Education at Charles Sturt University, Albury-Wodonga Campus.

Deb McPherson is an experienced English teacher. For over fifteen years she helped select English texts for the NSW Higher School Certificate.  When she was a Senior Curriculum Officer at the NSW Board of Studies she worked on the development of the 2002 English Years 7-10 Syllabus and helped implement that syllabus when she was Manager of English for the NSW Department of Education and Training. She is the author of four anthologies of Australian non-fiction for Oxford University Press, co-author of Oxford HSC English and the Oxford online Enriching Literature series. She has lectured in English and literacy at the universities of Newcastle and Wollongong.

Jane Sherlock has been an experienced, enthusiastic and passionate teacher of English for over 35 years. She has been involved in the new English syllabus for the Australian Curriculum, first in the draft writing stages in 2010 with the NSW Board of Studies and now as a presenter throughout NSW. Jane is also an author of a number of English textbooks including the national award- winning Oxford HSC English. Jane is a part time tutor and marker for the universities of Wollongong and Charles Sturt. In 2009 Jane received the Australian College of Educators award for her contribution to education.

For adopting schools, Oxford English will be supported by a wealth of additional teacher resources, accessed via the teacher obook.
Contact your Oxford Education Consultant for details and to receive a teacher obook activation code.

Part 1: Using Words: exploring parts of speech
WALL-E - obook Enriching Literature Unit