Language Toolkit 1: For the Australian Curriculum

The Language Toolkit 1 workbook provides junior secondary school students with the skills to explore the receptive and productive communication modes, enabling them to write, read, listen and speak across a range of contexts and for diverse audiences.

Each unit in the full-colour workbook is built around a different text type and supports learning across the language, literary and literature strands of the Australian Curriculum.

• Language skills are explored in context through a range of text types, including information, Shakespeare, literary, persuasive, visual, oral and multimodal texts.
• This new edition has been revised and updated to include details of curriculum content, new topics and activities, as well as a fresh, clean layout with more space for solutions.
• Activities address both receptive and productive language modes, with a focus on listening, reading, viewing, speaking, writing and creating.
• End of unit projects allow students to practise and further develop the skills they have explored so far.

Table of Contents

TOOLKIT 1

Unit 1 Interviews

Unit 2 Informal writing

Unit 3 Formal writing

Unit 4 Instructional writing

• Revision tools for Units 1-4

Unit 5 Personal recount

Unit 6 Visual texts

Unit 7 Information texts: News reports

Unit 8 Literary texts: Personal narratives

• Revision tools for Units 5-8

Unit 9 Responsive writing: Film reviews

Unit 10 Information texts: Newspaper articles

Unit 11 Literary texts: Short fiction

Unit 12 Literary texts: Descriptive writing

• Revision tools for Units 9-12

Unit 13 Literary texts: Characters

Unit 14 Literary texts: Dialogue

Unit 15 Literary texts: Poetry

Unit 16 Persuasive texts

• Revision tools Units 13-16