English Handbook and Study Guide is a comprehensive English Reference book, invaluable to teachers, students and as home reference.

Here is the story of Mary and the Girls, of Zoot, Pretty-Boy and Oubaas, of the Abrahams family who came from Bo-Kaap, of Last-Knight the Barber and his prim wife. This novel is written in tribute to the people of District Six so that we do not forget.

'Buckingham Palace' is a dingy row of five houses in the heart of District Six, a notorious slum area at the foot of Table Mountain overlooking Cape Town. In this lively novel Richard Rive traces this close community through its moments of triumph and despair, its loves, its hatreds - and its bizarre characters.

The school edition of Richard Rive's classic story includes an accessible and stimulating introduction by Robin Malan, as well as notes on the book and points for discussion.

The intermediate phase is a critically important period in schooling, when most learners make the transition from learning in their home language to using English as the language of learning and teaching. Learners and teachers find it a daunting time. There are language and literacy challenges in learning English as a subject, in addition to the linguistic complexities of classrooms in urban areas. Recent research has indicated that many intermediate phase learners are also still not fluent readers. Teaching English: As A First Additional Language In The Intermediate And Senior Phase will support teachers in overcoming these classroom challenges.

The book starts by exploring who the Intermediate and Senior Phase learner is – physically, socially, emotionally and cognitively – and then focuses on the skills of reading and viewing, writing, and speaking and listening.

In addition, the text:

• explains the supporting role the home language can play in learning an additional language
• provides strategies for integrating language skills in a second-language classroom
• includes examples of how language teaching can be extended across all curriculum subjects
• explores ways in which assessment can be used to support students’ learning
• focuses on the use of information and communication technologies in the language classroom

Teaching English: As A First Additional Language In The Intermediate And Senior Phase is suitable for preservice teachers completing a BEd or a PGCE. In-service teachers will also find it useful.

This Study Work Guide has been written according to the requirements of the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement of the DBE for Grade 10 English Home Language. This guide will assist learners in their understanding of the novel and their preparation for examinations.

Key points:

- The "official study guide" - developed by Tafelberg, the original publisher of the novel, under the series Best Books Study Work Guides

- Pre-, during and post reading activities including analysis and questions

- Formal assessment activities for examination purposes

Answer sheets downloadable for FREE from http://www.nb.co.za/Books/19971

The Oxford English Dictionary for Schools is carefully targeted to support secondary school students with their independent reference skills, to improve their spelling, punctuation, and grammar, and to build vocabulary. Ideal support at school and home.

Features:

• Fully updated vocabulary, geared towards the KS3 curriculum and GCSEs.
• Provides support with language context, with carefully levelled example sentences from children's literature - authors include David Almond, William Golding, Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, and Anthony Horowitz
• Subject-specific vocabulary labels (Maths, Science, Art, Music, etc.) for cross-curricular use across school subjects
• Related words, word families and antonyms, for building vocabulary
• Extended word histories for wider language reference
• Topic panels for additional language support, especially in grammar, spelling, and punctuation

Written for beginner readers, the Star Strategy Decodable Workbook series embarks on an exciting adventure to empower learners with confidence and proficiency in reading and writing. Aligned with the latest research in the Science of Reading, these workbooks guide learners through a systematic and cumulative approach to mastering essential early literacy skills.

Each workbook introduces six sets of letters and sounds, providing engaging multisensory activities, captivating decodable stories, and authentic texts to strengthen decoding, comprehension, and a love for language. With its emphasis on differentiated learning, continuous assessment, and confidence-building activities, the Star Strategy series unlocks the potential for all learners to become thriving readers and writers.

Features:

• Evidence-based: Aligned with the latest research, the Star Strategy uses a systematic, cumulative approach to instruction, which is proven to foster proficient readers and writers.
• Multisensory learning: Engaging activities tap into visual, auditory, and kinesthetic senses, solidifying understanding and making learning fun.
• Structured framework: Clear guidance, simple instructions and consistent format support effective teaching.
• Differentiated approach: Catering to diverse learners' needs and paces, the workbooks ensure personalised learning experiences.
• Continuous assessment: Check-in pages and ongoing monitoring equip educators to personalise instruction and celebrate achievements.
• Holistic development: Fostering not just word recognition but also comprehension, the workbooks cultivate a genuine love for reading.
• Engaging activities: Diverse exercises keep learners motivated and cater to various learning styles.
• Confidence building: Gradual progression, reinforcement, and celebration of progress build confidence and motivate learners to excel

Each set includes:

• Daily practice poster: Introduces letters, sounds, and words with irregular spellings or spelling that are not yet introduced.
• Skill builder pages: Reinforce letter and sound recognition, decoding, and encoding skills.
• Check-in page: Assess learner progress and identify areas for support.
• Four decodable stories: Target sounds and spelling taught in the set and provide further practise.
• Authentic texts: Expand language comprehension with real-world examples.
• Bonus activities: Keep learners engaged with colouring and tracing activities, seek-and-find questions and more.
• Cut-out letters and bookmark: Support hands-on learning and independent reading.
• Supporting digital resources: Flashcards, word work templates, and more.

Written for beginner readers, the Star Strategy Decodable Workbook series embarks on an exciting adventure to empower learners with confidence and proficiency in reading and writing. Aligned with the latest research in the Science of Reading, these workbooks guide learners through a systematic and cumulative approach to mastering essential early literacy skills.

Each workbook introduces six sets of letters and sounds, providing engaging multisensory activities, captivating decodable stories, and authentic texts to strengthen decoding, comprehension, and a love for language. With its emphasis on differentiated learning, continuous assessment, and confidence-building activities, the Star Strategy series unlocks the potential for all learners to become thriving readers and writers.

Features:

• Evidence-based: Aligned with the latest research, the Star Strategy uses a systematic, cumulative approach to instruction, which is proven to foster proficient readers and writers.
• Multisensory learning: Engaging activities tap into visual, auditory, and kinesthetic senses, solidifying understanding and making learning fun.
• Structured framework: Clear guidance, simple instructions and consistent format support effective teaching.
• Differentiated approach: Catering to diverse learners' needs and paces, the workbooks ensure personalised learning experiences.
• Continuous assessment: Check-in pages and ongoing monitoring equip educators to personalise instruction and celebrate achievements.
• Holistic development: Fostering not just word recognition but also comprehension, the workbooks cultivate a genuine love for reading.
• Engaging activities: Diverse exercises keep learners motivated and cater to various learning styles.
• Confidence building: Gradual progression, reinforcement, and celebration of progress build confidence and motivate learners to excel

Each set includes:

• Daily practice poster: Introduces letters, sounds, and words with irregular spellings or spelling that are not yet introduced.
• Skill builder pages: Reinforce letter and sound recognition, decoding, and encoding skills.
• Check-in page: Assess learner progress and identify areas for support.
• Four decodable stories: Target sounds and spelling taught in the set and provide further practise.
• Authentic texts: Expand language comprehension with real-world examples.
• Bonus activities: Keep learners engaged with colouring and tracing activities, seek-and-find questions and more.
• Cut-out letters and bookmark: Support hands-on learning and independent reading.
• Supporting digital resources: Flashcards, word work templates, and more.

Written for beginner readers, the Star Strategy Decodable Workbook series embarks on an exciting adventure to empower learners with confidence and proficiency in reading and writing. Aligned with the latest research in the Science of Reading, these workbooks guide learners through a systematic and cumulative approach to mastering essential early literacy skills.

Each workbook introduces six sets of letters and sounds, providing engaging multisensory activities, captivating decodable stories, and authentic texts to strengthen decoding, comprehension, and a love for language. With its emphasis on differentiated learning, continuous assessment, and confidence-building activities, the Star Strategy series unlocks the potential for all learners to become thriving readers and writers.

Features:

• Evidence-based: Aligned with the latest research, the Star Strategy uses a systematic, cumulative approach to instruction, which is proven to foster proficient readers and writers.
• Multisensory learning: Engaging activities tap into visual, auditory, and kinesthetic senses, solidifying understanding and making learning fun.
• Structured framework: Clear guidance, simple instructions and consistent format support effective teaching.
• Differentiated approach: Catering to diverse learners' needs and paces, the workbooks ensure personalised learning experiences.
• Continuous assessment: Check-in pages and ongoing monitoring equip educators to personalise instruction and celebrate achievements.
• Holistic development: Fostering not just word recognition but also comprehension, the workbooks cultivate a genuine love for reading.
• Engaging activities: Diverse exercises keep learners motivated and cater to various learning styles.
• Confidence building: Gradual progression, reinforcement, and celebration of progress build confidence and motivate learners to excel

Each set includes:

• Daily practice poster: Introduces letters, sounds, and words with irregular spellings or spelling that are not yet introduced.
• Skill builder pages: Reinforce letter and sound recognition, decoding, and encoding skills.
• Check-in page: Assess learner progress and identify areas for support.
• Four decodable stories: Target sounds and spelling taught in the set and provide further practise.
• Authentic texts: Expand language comprehension with real-world examples.
• Bonus activities: Keep learners engaged with colouring and tracing activities, seek-and-find questions and more.
• Cut-out letters and bookmark: Support hands-on learning and independent reading.
• Supporting digital resources: Flashcards, word work templates, and more.

Written for beginner readers, the Star Strategy Decodable Workbook series embarks on an exciting adventure to empower learners with confidence and proficiency in reading and writing. Aligned with the latest research in the Science of Reading, these workbooks guide learners through a systematic and cumulative approach to mastering essential early literacy skills.

Each workbook introduces six sets of letters and sounds, providing engaging multisensory activities, captivating decodable stories, and authentic texts to strengthen decoding, comprehension, and a love for language. With its emphasis on differentiated learning, continuous assessment, and confidence-building activities, the Star Strategy series unlocks the potential for all learners to become thriving readers and writers.

Features:

• Evidence-based: Aligned with the latest research, the Star Strategy uses a systematic, cumulative approach to instruction, which is proven to foster proficient readers and writers.
• Multisensory learning: Engaging activities tap into visual, auditory, and kinesthetic senses, solidifying understanding and making learning fun.
• Structured framework: Clear guidance, simple instructions and consistent format support effective teaching.
• Differentiated approach: Catering to diverse learners' needs and paces, the workbooks ensure personalised learning experiences.
• Continuous assessment: Check-in pages and ongoing monitoring equip educators to personalise instruction and celebrate achievements.
• Holistic development: Fostering not just word recognition but also comprehension, the workbooks cultivate a genuine love for reading.
• Engaging activities: Diverse exercises keep learners motivated and cater to various learning styles.
• Confidence building: Gradual progression, reinforcement, and celebration of progress build confidence and motivate learners to excel

Each set includes:

• Daily practice poster: Introduces letters, sounds, and words with irregular spellings or spelling that are not yet introduced.
• Skill builder pages: Reinforce letter and sound recognition, decoding, and encoding skills.
• Check-in page: Assess learner progress and identify areas for support.
• Four decodable stories: Target sounds and spelling taught in the set and provide further practise.
• Authentic texts: Expand language comprehension with real-world examples.
• Bonus activities: Keep learners engaged with colouring and tracing activities, seek-and-find questions and more.
• Cut-out letters and bookmark: Support hands-on learning and independent reading.
• Supporting digital resources: Flashcards, word work templates, and more.

"We came out demonstrating on a cold, wintry morning. But the authorities wouldn't have it. They set police dogs on us. They panel-beat us with batons. They sprayed us with teargas. They came out shooting. Army tanks roared down the streets like angry hippos. The contest was too uneven. We retreated in panic, leaving the ground strewn with casualties from both sides. We couldn't match them stone to bullet."

This important historical novel, first published in 1982 and later banned by the apartheid regime, is now available for literature study at school. It tells, with piercing authenticity, the story of the 1976 Soweto uprising.

Mzamane has created a set of characters whose courage, humour and imperfections fi ll the pages of this book and carry the reader forward on the rising tide of resistance. The novel is accompanied by notes and classroom activities.

When 16 year-old Lufuno leaves Jozi to start a new life in Cape Town with her family, she is running from her past. She doesn't realise it's about to get even tougher.

She is bullied at school for her dark skin and her Venda heritage, and her Parents are not happy about her friendship with Mandla, a Xhosa chief's son.

When a strike at a factory where her parents work turns violent, it seems as though her whole world is about to explode.

The obvious thing to do with this play is to read it as a text, just as you would if it were a short story or a novel. But it holds other possibilities as well. It could be read aloud, with four learners taking the different roles while the rest of the class follow along in their books as the audience, or the class could be divided into groups of four to do the play reading in groups so that everyone gets a chance to read aloud. It could even be staged, with auditions to choose the best cast, who will learn their parts by heart and perform for a wider audience than their classmates, with costumes and props on a set, just as the playwright intended. The play could also be the source of other activities in the classroom such as improvisation, role play and writing. Drama offers the possibility of enjoyment along with a growth in empathy, teamwork and language skills. We hope that this play will serve you in all those ways.

’n Onderwyseres wat op volmaannagte in ’n weerwolf verander.

’n Speelding wat allerhande vreemde dinge begin aanvang.

’n Eksperiment wat jou in ’n insek laat verander.

’n Vakansieplaas waar reuse-vlermuise snags buite rondvlieg.

En ’n grillerige monsterfliek waaruit jy nie maklik ontsnap nie.

Kry jou flits uit, kruip onder die komberse in en maak gereed om lekker te ril en te gril met hierdie GROOT en GRILLERIGE versameling stories. Vir die eerste keer verskyn vyf van Jaco Jacobs se gewildste grilstories saam in een boek. Dit sluit in:

- Troetelgedrog

- Tande

- Nag van die monsters

- Nagvlerke

- Voelers

X-kit Achieve! English Grades 8 to 12 Essential Reference Guide has been revised and updated to provide even more CAPS-aligned support. The trusted content has been grouped into the four key language skills – Listening and Speaking, Reading and Viewing, Writing and Presenting and Language Structures and Conventions.

Reading strategies for unknown words have been added and the Language structures example grid provides an overview of key language concepts.

Additional support for formal assessment, in the form of tips for papers 1, 2 and 3, reflects where learners need the greatest support, while the new Oral assessment rubric will guide learners on how to maximise their marks in the oral assessment.

Each book contains 32 weeks of work, arranged into four units. Seven weeks of each unit begin with a new ‘Skill Focus’, addressing a key language concept. Each day, the first two questions will reinforce and consolidate this language concept. The rest of the daily questions will cover common skills of English.

Energise your English programme through comprehensive and structured daily English practice to consolidate learners' ability to read and write.

Build learners’ confidence through improved mastery of spelling, punctuation, phonics, word knowledge and grammar.

Target confusing words and common errors in writing and help your learners to achieve better results.

Each book contains 32 weeks of work, arranged into four units. Seven weeks of each unit begin with a new ‘Skill Focus’, addressing a key language concept. Each day, the first two questions will reinforce and consolidate this language concept. The rest of the daily questions will cover common skills of English.

Energise your English programme through comprehensive and structured daily English practice to consolidate learners' ability to read and write.

Build learners’ confidence through improved mastery of spelling, punctuation, phonics, word knowledge and grammar.

Target confusing words and common errors in writing and help your learners to achieve better results.

A powerful and turbulent story, set in the late 1950s, about Sophiatown gangster Tsotsi, who menaces the streets. The approved contemporary novel for Home Language English Grade 11. Specially prepared for schools.

Board: AQA Examination: English Language & Literature Specification: GCSE 9-1 Set Text covered: Love and Relationships AQA Poetry Anthology Type: Set Text Study Guide As you know, poetry is worth nearly 40% of your entire English Literature AQA mark (19% anthology / 20% unseen) This book is here to help! Our series of study guides includes titles especially for Paper 2 Sections B and C - Poetry, of the closed book AQA GCSE English Literature examination. Each study guide is written by experts in teaching English and uses an active, stepped approach to revision to maximise learning. This Poetry Anthology study guide examines each anthology poem closely, focusing on understanding the poem, its themes, context, language and structure to help you demonstrate your knowledge and understanding and achieve higher marks. With an exam-style practice question for every poem in the anthology (and answers) you can't go wrong! Books in this series cover the following: Paper 1 Section A - Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth) Paper 1 Section B - Nineteenth-century novel (The Sign of Four, A Christmas Carol, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) Paper 2 Section A - Modern texts (Blood Brothers, An Inspector Calls) Paper 2 Sections B and C - Poetry (Love and Relationships anthology, Power and Conflict anthology and Unseen) The accompanying app uses cutting-edge technology to help you revise on-the-go to: Use the free, personalised digital revision planner and get stuck into the quick tests to check your understanding Download our free revision cards which you can save to your phone to help you revise on the go Implement 'active' revision techniques - giving you lots of tips and tricks to help the knowledge sink in Active revision is easy with the following features included throughout the study guides: Snap it! Read it, snap it on your phone, revise it...helps you retain key facts Nail it! Authoritative essential tips and guidance to help you understand what's required in the AQA exam Do it! Short activities to consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the text Stretch it! Support for the really tough stuff that will get you higher grades Define it! Definitions of unfamiliar language in the text and important subject terminology Scholastic have a full suite of revision guide, study guide, app, student book, revision cards and essay planners - the most comprehensive support for GCSE set texts available!

Just like the real thing - only shorter! Help your child prepare for the SATS with these bite-sized national test papers. This book offers: * 2 mini Phonics Checks * 2 mini-reading tests which include fiction and non-fiction texts. * 3 complete mini Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Tests * 2 complete Maths Sets (each set contains 2 Tests) Question types and mark schemes match the format of the National tests and offer an authentic SATs experience, though the flexible format allows them to be used at any time of the day. A progress chart is also supplied to give you some indication of the scores your child is likely to attain. Please note that this is all new content, if you want more mini Tests please try the other titles in the 10-Minute Tests series.

"The most realistic and reliable papers for CEM" Surita De Mulder, 11+ tutor, Reading Prepare for the CEM 11+ tests with confidence with these authentic multiple-choice papers covering Verbal Reasoning, key English skills, Maths and Non-Verbal Reasoning. Designed for practising under test conditions, these papers will help to develop the essential skills students need to succeed in the CEM 11+ tests. Contains two complete tests (each test contains two papers - papers A and B), along with answer sheets and short answer grids. Two complete CEM practice tests Authentic multiple choice format Full answers with explanations Covers Maths, English, Verbal and Non-verbal Reasoning