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Getting Familiar with the Unfamiliar 2 - 9780170424547

Getting Familiar with the Unfamiliar 2

Tania Roxborogh, Kathryn Fitzgerald

$21.77

ISBN-13: 9780170424547
Published: 01/10/2018
Available Stock: 306

Overview

Getting Familiar with the Unfamiliar Level 2 is an easy-to-follow workbook that will prepare students for tackling this exam at the end of the year. Once students have completed the workbook they will be able to read any text they encounter with confidence and write thoughtful responses.
The workbook has been created for students to use with little or no teacher intervention. However, it would also be a great resource in the classroom. The authors expect that, taken as a series of lessons, texts 1 and 2 of each section would take two to three hours each to work through thoroughly as a class.
Texts have been carefully selected to:
• show exemplars of excellent writing (fiction and non-fiction)
• engage students in their study of poetry
• provide lots of practice at identifying and decoding language techniques/features
• teach students how to go ‘beyond the text’ and learn effective strategies to analyse texts
• teach students effective strategies for how to produce better personal reading responses.
As well as teaching close reading of unfamiliar texts, we believe it is also a great resource to use in the classroom for a range of the NCEA English standards.
Getting Familiar with the Unfamiliar Level 2 includes a wonderful range of interesting and challenging texts which students will respond positively to and the steps into analysis will provide some wonderfully insightful responses.

Introduction for teachers
Introduction for students

Section One: Narrative Prose
1 ‘Tending the Books’ from The Thirteenth Tale
2 We’re Only Joking
3 from All We Shall Know
4 from Motueka Tobacco Farm, 1962
5 Aging Backwards
6 Recognition

Section Two: Poetry
1 The Trees
2 Anytime is Wrong Time and so is In-Between Time
3 Pussy Cat
4 Makara Beach, Spring
5 Advice to a Discarded Lover
6 And if it snowed

Section Three: Non-fiction
1 We don’t need our community to be grateful, we need them to be okay
2 Assured, authentic Jacinda Ardern impresses overseas
3 Ditching plastic bags – just do it already
4 an abridged speech delivered by Maggie Rainey-Smith
5 an abridged introduction to Once While Travelling
6 Some Thoughts on Friendship

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