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Nelson English - Book 4 Developing Fiction Skills John Jackman

Nelson English - Book 4 Developing Fiction Skills By John Jackman

Nelson English - Book 4 Developing Fiction Skills by John Jackman


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Summary

The pupil books explore a wide range of texts using parallel themes. Each book contains twelve units offering four units per term. The parallel themes common to both the Fiction and Non-Fiction strands allow for comparison, an exploration of the same theme in different text types and effectively integrates the teaching of non-fiction.

Nelson English - Book 4 Developing Fiction Skills Summary

Nelson English - Book 4 Developing Fiction Skills by John Jackman

The Developing Fiction Skills and Developing Non-Fiction Skills pupil books explore a wide range of texts using parallel themes. Each book contains twelve units offering four units per term. The parallel themes common to both the Fiction and Non-Fiction strands allow for comparison, an exploration of the same theme in different text types and effectively integrates the teaching of non-fiction.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Wartime: The Silver Sword; homophones and homonyms; roots, prefixes and suffixes; word classes; capital letter and punctuation; the story teller. Part 2 Shipwrecks: Robinson Crusoe; our changing language; prefixes; active sentences; connectives and conjunctions; first person. Part 3 The Victorians: Hard Times; origin of words; difficult words; simple and compound sentences; commas; playscripts. Part 4 Travellers' tales: The Listeners; our changing language; unstressed vowels; active and passive; colons and semi-colons; poetry. Part 5 Mysteries: The Mystery of the Mary Celeste; idioms; spelling by analogy; is, are, was and were; avoiding repetition; mystery stories. Part 6 Alien visitors?: Creatures From Outer Space; using a thesaurus; syllables; helper verbs; writing a summary; science fiction. Part 7 The unexplained: The Ghost of Thomas Kempe; our changing language; roots, prefixes and suffixes; active and passive; direct speech; ghost stories. Part 8 Safety first: George; proverbs and idioms; mnemonics; verbs; adjective clauses; humerous poems. Part 9 Ancient Greece: The Wooden Horse; anagrams; unstressed vowels; simple verb tenses; adverb clauses; a reading journal. Part 10 Cliffs: The Coming of the Iron man; word games; unstressed letters; idiom origins; practising punctuation; book reviews. Part 11 Buried treasure: The Legend of Alderley; word games; intrusive vowels; personal and impersonal writing; using semi-colons; extended stories. Part 12 Cats: Cat Tales; puns; words within words; word classes; passive sentences; writing styles.

Additional information

GOR001953809
9780174247739
0174247737
Nelson English - Book 4 Developing Fiction Skills by John Jackman
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
20000705
104
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