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School Price: $61.95

Format:
Hardback 304 pp.
full colour illustrations, 8" x 9.5"

ISBN-10:
0195413628

ISBN-13:
9780195413625

Publication date:
May 1998

Imprint: OUP Canada

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Identities 7

Actions and Reactions

Senior Author: Arnold Toutant
Caren Cameron, Anita Chapman, Kathleen Gregory, Sharon Jeroski, and others

Identities is a new Core English Language Arts learning resource for grades 7, 8, and 9. The series is designed to provide a framework within which students can achieve the learning outcomes described in the Common Curriculum Framework for English Language Arts as published by the Westen Canadian Protocol.

The student books and teachers' guides present materials and experiences that acknowledge the active processes required for effective language learning (reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, and representing) and are interrelated and interdependent; facility in one area strengthens and supports the other.

Readership : G7 English Language Arts students nationwide

1. Heroes' Gallery (mixed genre)
2. Think for Yourself (media)
3. Actions and Reactions (short stories)
4. Reconstructing Past Lives (information)
5. It's Showtime (drama)
6. Young People in History
7. Imagined Worlds (poetry)
8. Making Things Happen
Help Yourself

Teacher's Guide
Teacher Instruction and Assessment Design Handbook

Sharon Sterling is a Freelance Educational writer and instructional designer. She has worked in a variety of media, including computer-aided-learning, distance Education courses, student texts, and teacher's resources. She has written for grade levels from primary to senior high school and has developed the instructional design for the successful grades 3-7 Outlooks Social Studies series for OUP in British Columbia, and authored the Student texts and Teacher's Resources for grades 3, 4 and 6 in that series.

Language 7 - Debbie Chambers, Robin Pearson and Myra Junyk
Edited by Rachel Eagen
Language Matters - Book E - Graham Ryles
Judy Coghill
Identities 8 - Senior Author: Arnold Toutant
Caren Cameron, Anita Chapman, Kathleen Gregory, Sharon Jeroski, and others

Special Features

  • Units are organized by both theme and genre
  • Each unit category focuses on particular language forms and functions of language
  • High-quality selections include: a wide range of narrative and non-narrative styles written by Canadian and international authors; information, including prompts for the use of everyday written and oral language; visual and text materials about communications directed to mass audiences
  • All units are structured to have three parts:
  • Introduction to the Unit - introduces students to what they will be learning and outlines the key ideas and learning outcomes in student-friendly language
  • Selections - stories, articles, letters, photo-essays, etc. followed by activities
  • Making connections - sets of activities for students to apply what they have learned from the unit, for reflection on both content and process, to demonstrate skills and understand, and to provide opportunities to apply skills in various contexts and curriculum areas
  • Help Yourself: a 20-page handbook that provides students with references, language use, grammar, punctuation, and guidelines to assess their own work