Aiming for Progress In Reading, Writing and Grammar Book 2: Powered By Collins Connect, 1 Year Licence

Aiming for Progress In Reading, Writing and Grammar Book 2: Powered By Collins Connect, 1 Year Licence

Aiming for

Help your students make good progress in Key Stage 3 English, with all the extra teaching resources and automarked practice activities available on Collins Connect. This one-year subscription gives you unlimited student and teacher logins.

The Aiming for series offers student-friendly explanations and activities to build, develop and extend studentsﾒ 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 resources include new lessons on grammar, summary and synthesis, literary non-fiction and Shakespeare.

This Aiming for subscription is the perfect starting point for students arriving at secondary school with a secure Level 3 or a low Level 4 in reading and writing. It will help you to

ﾕtarget areas of underperformance, with a chapter on each key reading skill written at the right level by experienced teachers and consultants
ﾕ develop the essential reading and commentary skills with clear, accessible explanations, inspiring examples and lively follow-up activities
ﾕbuild confidence in grammar by exploring the effects of writersﾒ choices
ﾕmotivate and engage students, with exciting stimulus texts, fresh approaches to learning and a clear, colourful layout
ﾕ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
ﾕgather evidence for periodic assessments, with the ﾑApply your skillsﾒ tasks designed to build writing stamina and independence
ﾕplan ahead without the stress, with ready-to-use lessons and teacher guidance to support each chapter
ﾕsupport the transition to Key Stage 3 by reinforcing and building on the reading skills taught at Key Stage 2
ﾕlay the foundations for GCSE success, with coverage of new skills such as summary and synthesis, and an expanded focus on Shakespeare and literary non-fiction.

Gareth Calway, Mike Gould, Caroline Bentley-Davies, Gareth Calway, Nicola Copitch, Steve Eddy, Najoud Ensaff, Keith West, Matthew Tett, Ian Kirby, Robert Francis, Christopher Martin – Collins Educational