This book provides an overview of the year’s work required for students to be successful in NCEA English Level 1. It supplements their schoolwork by giving clear, concise notes on terminology along with teaching notes, examples and practice exercises. The book has a strong focus on developing close reading skills, while providing exercises and models for students to improve their essay writing skills. Formative, creative and formal writing are also covered. The book builds a useful revision resource to study from for external assessments.

This new edition of Achievement English @ Year 13 is an integrated workbook that is designed to support the teaching of English at NCEA Level 3 in the New Zealand classroom today. This workbook will help students expand on the skills they have learnt in previous years. It provides interesting and varied write-on literature and language tasks, self-explantory homework exercises and a useful revision programme leading to external assessment. The workbook encourages students to be organised and self-motivated. There is strong focus on the close reading of prose and poetry, oral presentations and the ability to write a clear and detailed essay in response to a range of texts. Addiitonal material is also provided for teachers to extend their classroom teaching.