Oxford Big Ideas English 8 Student Textbook + Obook - Australian Curriculum

Oxford Big Ideas English 8 : Student Textbook + Obook - Australian Curriculum
ISBN: 9780195577815
Publication Date: 22 November 2011

Student Book + obook

Oxford Big Ideas English is a series for junior English specifically written for the Australian Curriculum. It offers an innovative approach based on conceptual learning that encourages students' thinking by exposing them to a wide range of texts in different modes and from different cultural contexts.

The obook is a cloud-based web-book available anywhere, anytime, on any device, navigated by topic or by 'page view'.

Oxford Big Ideas English

• organises content into meaningful big ideas and revisits these ideas with increasing complexity
• offers an innovative approach based on conceptual learning
• integrates the strands of Language, Literature and Literacy throughout each chapter
• exposes students to a wealth of literary and non-literary texts from different cultural contexts with a strong emphasis on digital and multimodal texts
• develops genuine literacy skills through a broad range of activities underpinning the different communication modes
• explores grammar in context from authentic examples of 'language in use'
• enhances writing skills through a wide range of modelling tasks, encouraging students to become text creators and not just text analysers
• offers innovative digital resources including an obook with textbook