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 7–10
• 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.

Part 1: Using words – exploring parts of speech and spelling

1 Nouns name
2 Adjectives add and pronouns in place
3 Verbs alive and actively adverbs
4 Prepositions, conjunctions, interjections and articles
5 English from other times and places
6 Spelling success – strategies and resources
7 Spelling success – spelling slips and prefixes/suffixes

Part 2: Building sentences – combining words and creating sentences

8 Senior English vocabulary – A to G
9 Senior English vocabulary – H to Z
10 Sentence structures, clauses and phrases
11 Building cohesive and well-crafted texts

Part 3: Exploring language in use – using punctuation and other language devices

12 Punctuation punch – power to write, power to read
13 Punctuation punch – preparing for senior English
14 World of Words 1 – active/passive voice to exposition
15 World of Words 2 – formal language to narrator
16 World of Words 3 – objective writing to rhetorical questions
17 World of Words 4 – rhyme to understatement

Part 4: Creating texts – composing texts and using text features

18 Genres in English – narratives, responses, expositions
19 Persuasive and evaluative language
20 Rhetorical language and appropriations
21 The language of ideas and arguments
22 The language of creative and comedic writing
23 Exploring language in fiction and poetry texts
24 Looking at language in visual texts
25 Investigating language in media, multimedia and digital texts

obook only content

Enrich Literature Units

Chenxi and the Foreigner
Avatar
The Hunger Games
Bran Nue Dae
Land’s Edge
The Rabbits
Linda Burney ‘2003 Maiden speech’
Macbeth
The Happiest Refugee
Our Choice

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 and Spelling
The Happiest Refugee - obook Enriching Literature Unit
Bran Nue Dae - obook Enriching Literature Unit