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The Collins Cambridge Lower Secondary Global Perspectives series offers a skills-building approach to the Cambridge curriculum framework (1129) from 2022. The comprehensive and practical teacher support includes lesson plans, worksheets and answers for every unit of the Student’s Book, and a scheme of work to help you plan your course. This title has been endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education for the Cambridge Lower Secondary Global Perspectives curriculum framework (1129) from 2022. Plan for progression with a full scheme of work for each stage. Chapter overviews show which skill strands, learning objectives, issues and key terms are covered in each lesson, while the Curriculum Framework coverage map shows where topics, learning objectives and challenges have been supported. Feel confident teaching Global Perspectives with ready-made lesson plans, worksheets and an activity bank full of active learning teaching ideas. Detailed lesson plans share best practice, whether you are teaching Lower Secondary Global Perspectives for the first time or are an experienced teacher of the subject. Understand how to assess students’ participation and progress with the Assessment for learning guidance and the differentiated Success criteria in each lesson plan. The clear lesson-by-lesson approach allows you to use the resources with ease in the classroom and to build them into your own schemes of work. The Extra support and Extra challenge differentiation points in each lesson plan suggest how all learners can be supported to make progress, and worksheets scaffold and extend the Student’s Book activities. Personalise the course and adapt the resources to the needs of your classes with the editable Word and PDF files that can be downloaded from the Collins website: www.collins.co.uk/cambridge-international-downloads

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Help your students develop the skills and understanding to succeed in IGCSE® Literature in English. The Student Book provides an ideal companion to the Cambridge IGCSE® and IGCSE® (9–1) course for first examination in 2020, giving students the tools they need to tackle their own set texts in depth and tackle examinations with confidence. Exam Board: Cambridge Assessment International EducationLevel & Subject: IGCSE Literature in English (0475), IGCSE (9–1) Literature in English (0992)First teaching: September 2018 First examination: June 2020 This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education. Build the fundamental skills and understanding: The first part of the book introduces the essential skills, concepts and terminology. The second part of the book shows students how to apply these skills to poetry, prose and drama. Help all students make good progress. Chapters move from teaching the underlying skills and concepts to asking students to apply them in passage-based, discursive and unseen tasks. Regular ‘Check your progress’ features help your classes to measure their progress, while annotated responses show them how to improve. Support all learners with clear differentiation. Introductory chapters build learners’ confidence, the main chapters offer greater depth, while extension lessons help all students reach their full potential. Practical for the classroom: the book is clearly organised into lessons and packed with activity. Each two- or four-page section in our Student Book is supported by a double-page lesson plan in the Teacher Guide. Engage students with rich, varied, text extracts from a variety of periods and cultures. Texts representing the different genres in the syllabus allow students to compare writers’ choices and their effects. Flexible for teachers: the clear book structure and lesson headings allow teachers to dip in to find lessons to build into their own schemes of work.

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The Collins Cambridge Lower Secondary Global Perspectives series offers a skills-building approach to the Cambridge curriculum framework (1129) from 2022. The resources support students to develop skills in analysis, collaboration, communication, evaluation, reflection and research, exploring global issues through rich international sources. This title has been endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education for the Cambridge Lower Secondary Global Perspectives curriculum framework (1129) from 2022. This book provides full coverage of the Stage 7 Cambridge Lower Secondary Global Perspectives curriculum framework. Focused on improving skills: each chapter centres on two skill strands, building these skills through a carefully structured sequence of active learning towards a collaborative final task. Empower students to engage with a range of contemporary issues and perspectives. In Stage 7 these relate to the syllabus topics, ‘Change in culture and communities’, ‘Education for all’, ‘Health and wellbeing’, ‘Globalisation’, ‘Values and beliefs’, ‘Employment’ and ‘Environment, pollution and conservation’. Help students to assess their progress and understand how to improve: the final chapter asks students to apply the skills they have learned across Stage 7, by carrying out a group project in their local community and reflecting in writing on what they have learned. Encourage reflection through structured Reflection points in each lesson and a self-assessment Check your progress feature at the end of each chapter. The clear lesson-by-lesson approach allows teachers to easily use the resources in the classroom and build them into their own schemes of work. The Collins resources can be used as preparation for the Challenges, if schools wish, as each chapter in the Student’s Book links to the skills and topic focus of a Stage 7 Challenge.

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The Collins Cambridge Lower Secondary English series offers a skills-building approach to the Lower Secondary English curriculum framework (0861) from 2020. The Stage 8Student’s Book supports students to develop their skills in reading, writing and speaking and listening, showing all students how to progress. This series is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education to support the new curriculum framework 0861 from 2020. Focused on improving skills – the book provides full coverage of the Stage 8 Cambridge Lower Secondary English curriculum framework, with clear outcomes in each chapter. Organised by purpose – each chapter shows students how to speak, write and comment on texts created for one key purpose or pair of purposes. A clear learning sequence builds from students exploring texts, through scaffolded writing and speaking and listening activities, towards a series of meaningful final tasks. Stage 8 covers describing, explaining, persuading and arguing, narrating, exploring and discussing, and commenting and comparing. The final chapter of the book allows students to test their understanding and apply the skills they have learned across Stage 8, by responding to reading and writing questions on two longer texts. Supports progression – clear models and examples are included throughout to show students how to improve, while self-assessment tasks at the end of each chapter help students to reflect on their progress. Rich, varied and engaging text extracts – fresh international fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction texts represent the different forms and purposes required at each stage of the curriculum. Extracts of increasing length and challenge have been chosen to build students’ reading stamina across the stage. The clear lesson-by-lesson approach allows teachers to easily use the resources in the classroom and build them into their own schemes of work. Prepares students for a seamless transition to Stage 9.

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This card gives you access to your digital teacher's resource on the Cambridge GO platform. With ready-made lesson plans, worksheets and a scheme of work all written by two experienced teacher trainers, this Cambridge GO teacher's resource helps you save time preparing and planning. Combining a logical route through the syllabus with editable PowerPoints, advice for differentiation and tips for tailoring the material to your classroom, this resource is an essential addition to any AS & A Level English Language teacher's shelf. Answers to coursebook questions are included in this resource.

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Collins Cambridge International AS & A Level Global Perspectives and Research is a highly supportive and user-friendly resource to support the learning and teaching of the Cambridge International AS & A Level Global Perspectives & Research syllabus (9239). It comprises a Student’s Book, Workbook and a Teacher’s Guide. This highly practical Workbook is designed for students to use for practice, note-taking and reflection as they work their way through the course. As well as offering useful practice exercises which link to the Student’s Book, it also helps them to keep track of their progress, and to record their journey in a journal-style format. This allows them to develop a personal working portfolio, assists them in planning and timekeeping, and encourages self-reflection. We are working with Cambridge Assessment International Education towards endorsement of this title to support the full syllabus for examination from 2023.

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This brand-new Workbook helps students to consolidate their learning, with further practice activities and language support to accompany each chapter of the Student Book. This Workbook supports the syllabuses for Cambridge IGCSE® and IGCSE® (9–1) First Language English (0500 and 0990) for first examination in 2020. Exam Board: Cambridge Assessment International EducationLevel & Subject: IGCSE First Language English (0500), IGCSE (9–1) First Language English (0990)First teaching: September 2018 First examination: June 2020 This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education. Set homework easily or offer extra support where needed with a clear correspondence between the Workbook and Student Book. Following the skills-building chapter structure of Student Book, the Workbook provides additional practice of the fundamental reading, writing and speaking and listening skills, covering teaching points in more depth and with more scaffolding where appropriate. Practice tasks for all the exam-question styles help students to build their writing stamina and fluency for all the writing forms and purposes required by the syllabus. The write-in format means students can review and revisit their learning, providing a useful reference for revision. Explanations and activities have been designed to be used by students working individually, without teacher support, if desired.

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Boost students’ understanding of grammar and punctuation to improve their writing and their GCSE results. Each of the thirty-six tutorials explains a key aspect of grammar, spelling or punctuation within a GCSE or IGCSE writing context. By exploring the choices other writers make, students will learn how to strengthen their own writing at a word, sentence, paragraph and whole text level. Recap the basics of word classes; sentence grammar, including tenses and mood; punctuation and paragraphing in Chapter 1. Focus on the specifics of writing to inform and explain; writing to summarise; writing to argue and persuade; writing to explore and analyse; and writing to describe and narrate in dedicated chapters. Explore the sample answers in the final chapter on proofreading and editing to understand how you can check and improve your work in exams and controlled assessments. This explicit, purposeful teaching of grammar, spelling and punctuation in GCSE and IGCSE writing contexts will help students obtain the marks available for accuracy and access the wider range of marks available for effective expression. These one-off tutorials can be used in regular grammar sessions or as an intensive intervention programme as part of your GCSE course or as a preparation for key stage 4 in Year 9.

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Help your students make good progress in Key Stage 3 English with our popular series, now updated for the new curriculum. The Aiming for series provides targeted support for all ability levels to help every student move forward from their achievement at Key Stage 2 towards GCSE success. This revised edition of Aiming for Level 6 Writing offers student-friendly explanations and activities to build, develop and extend students’ literacy skills, showing them precisely what they need to do to progress. Whether you're looking for a one-off lesson, snappy starters or a longer programme of study, these flexible resources are designed to fit around the needs of your teaching and your classes. Now refreshed to reflect the text types and skills in the new Key Stage 3 curriculum, the Writing and Grammar books also offer comprehensive coverage of the grammar objectives set out in the appendix to the Key Stage 2 English Programme of Study. This Aiming for book is the perfect starting point for students arriving at secondary school with a secure Level 5 or a low Level 6 in writing. It will help you to target areas of underperformance, with a chapter on each writing skill written at the right level by experienced teachers and consultants develop the essential writing and grammar skills, with clear, accessible explanations, inspiring examples and lively follow-up activities build confidence in grammar to improve students’ writing by exploring the effects of other writers’ choices motivate and engage students, with exciting stimulus texts, fresh approaches to learning and a clear, colourful layout embed Assessment for Learning in your day-to-day teaching, with clear learning objectives, criteria for self and peer assessment on every double-page, and end of chapter checklists to help students understand how to progress gather evidence for periodic assessments, with the ‘Apply your skills’ tasks designed to build writing stamina and independence plan ahead without the stress, with ready-to-use double-page lessons and a teacher guide at the back of the book support the transition to Key Stage 3 by reinforcing and building on the writing skills taught at Key Stage 2.

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Help your students make good progress in Key Stage 3 English with our popular series, now updated for the new curriculum. The Aiming for series provides targeted support for all ability levels to help every student move forward from their achievement at Key Stage 2 towards GCSE success. This revised edition of Aiming for Level 5 Writing offers student-friendly explanations and activities to build, develop and extend students’ literacy skills, showing them precisely what they need to do to progress. Whether you're looking for a one-off lesson, snappy starters or a longer programme of study, these flexible resources are designed to fit around the needs of your teaching and your classes. Now refreshed to reflect the text types and skills in the new Key Stage 3 curriculum, the Writing and Grammar books also offer comprehensive coverage of the grammar objectives set out in the appendix to the Key Stage 2 English Programme of Study. This Aiming for book is the perfect starting point for students arriving at secondary school with a secure Level 4 or a low Level 5 in writing. It will help you to target areas of underperformance, with a chapter on each writing skill written at the right level by experienced teachers and consultants develop the essential writing and grammar skills, with clear, accessible explanations, inspiring examples and lively follow-up activities build confidence in grammar to improve students’ writing by exploring the effects of other writers’ choices motivate and engage students, with exciting stimulus texts, fresh approaches to learning and a clear, colourful layout embed Assessment for Learning in your day-to-day teaching, with clear learning objectives, criteria for self and peer assessment on every double-page, and end of chapter checklists to help students understand how to progress gather evidence for periodic assessments, with the ‘Apply your skills’ tasks designed to build writing stamina and independence plan ahead without the stress, with ready-to-use double-page lessons and a teacher guide at the back of the book support the transition to Key Stage 3 by reinforcing and building on the writing skills taught at Key Stage 2.

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