Build essential media literacy and persuasive writing skills.
Designed for Years 7 and 8 students, Insight Issues: Junior Years helps students confidently analyse and respond to news media, contemporary issues and persuasive texts.
Updated with new media texts on topical issues, the 2nd edition of Insight Issues: Junior Years equips students with the skills and strategies they need to think critically, write persuasively and engage with current events.
Why students will benefit:
- Engaging contemporary content: Explore real-world issues through accessible and relevant texts.
- Step-by-step skill building: Develop comprehension, analysis and persuasive writing techniques progressively.
- Practical and stimulating: Cloze exercises, word banks and scaffolded writing tasks provide hands-on learning.
- Strategies to enhance confidence and clarity: Sample sentences and model paragraphs guide students towards clear, fluent expression.
Set students up for success in media literacy and persuasive writing with Insight Issues: Junior Years!
Features:
- Targeted work units based on engaging texts about contemporary issues
- Systematic development of the skills needed to work confidently with the key concepts and metalanguage associated with this area of English study
- An emphasis on accessibility and the visual presentation of information, catering to a variety of ability levels and learning styles
- Strategies for developing strong written skills, assisting students to write well-structured and fluent analyses, as well as to express their own well-supported opinions on issues.