A brand new First Year English text focusing specifically on the new Junior Certificate course. It covers the Strands, the Learning Outcomes and the Key Skills and delivers a range of digital resources in an enjoyable and engaging way.
- A rich and visually stimulating textbook with clear opportunities to address all Learning Outcomes
- Guidelines for the new Junior Cycle specification on poetry, story, drama and non-literary texts covered in detail
- All 22 Learning Outcomes for First Year aligned with suitable formative and summative assessment
- Organised into nine units, with a mixture of drama, poetry, short stories, novels, and media, as well as themed units
- Reading, Writing and Oral Language Outcomes are fully integrated throughout the exercises, making learning real and enjoyable
- An ePortfolio activity introduced in every chapter
- Student-friendly Learning Outcomes signposted to aid teacher planning and assessment
- Differentiated texts and activities designed for a wide range of abilities and learning styles
- Imaginative, practical and creative activities to promote individual and group engagement
- Exercises and activities have been piloted in schools
- ‘Young Writer’s Workshop’ provides guidance on writing in various genres, together with samples of each style
- Rich models of language are a major feature of the book
- Includes activities incorporating the key skills of numeracy
- Promotes effective collaboration in the classroom
- Assessment, including peer assessment, of Learning Outcomes is a constant feature of the units
- FREE Teacher’s Resource Book
- FREE How to Create an ePortfolio e-book for teachers, to guide students on how to create and use ePortfolio systems and how to build digital artefacts
- FREE Spirals website; teachers and students can access a range of videos and interactive activities at www.edco.ie/spirals
- FREE Spirals Student Portfolio providing additional material, activities and tasks in a printed booklet which accompanies the Spirals textbook
- In addition to being a record-keeper for the year, the portfolio:
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- Includes TAG feedback sheets, not included in the textbook
- Promotes autonomous learning through peer- and self-assessment sheets for both oral communication and written responses to further material, allowing for differentiation
- Contains a reading log for independent reading (and rating of texts)
- Delivers supplementary tasks and activities linked to any novel that is being read independently or as a class
- Perfect for the more able learners!
- Provides plenty of extra space for the re-drafting process.