Louder Than Words - Junior Cycle English - 3 Year Textbook, Learning Log & Grammar Guide
THE CREATIVE, CURRENT AND CONCISE THREE-YEAR PACKAGE FOR JUNIOR CYCLE ENGLISH
- Ebook version included
- 12 thematic units, containing up-to-date literary and non-literary texts, focus on subjects that matter to today’s young people.
- Each unit opens with a selection of stimulus material – including quotes, images, key words, statistics and facts – to engage students in productive conversation about the theme and promote oral communication skills
- Clearly identifiable Get to grips with … feature integrates genre and introduces devices
- Texts are followed by a bank of differentiated Think about it questions to check understanding, develop opinion-based response and build exam-quality answers
- Master the language tasks check knowledge of poetic devices, literary terms and other terminology
- Chat it out tasks offer consistent opportunities for oral communication and spark discussion of the ideas or issues related to a text, device or genre
- Get creative tasks provide regular opportunities for students to create their own written, oral, visual, digital and multimodal texts in preparation for Classroom-Based Assessment
- Reflect on it tasks aid students in developing and articulating their response to a range of texts in preparation for the Assessment Task
- A unique visual storytelling unit – including extracts from comics, graphic novels, manga and silent books – arms students with the language they need to discuss image-based texts
- Dedicated Studied Poet and Poetry Analysis sections model critical analysis and underpin an appreciation of the genre
- Past paper and exam-style questions and model answers build confidence ahead of assessment and transfer critical thinking from textbook to studied texts
- A linked Learning Log builds a collection of student texts in preparation for Classroom-Based Assessment 2 and provides advice and ideas for assessment
- A standalone Grammar Guide helps students identify the effects of grammar while reading and apply grammar correctly in their own writing
- Digital resources support the selection and teaching of texts from the prescribed list for 2024–26