Bateleur College Grade 8

The English for Life Learner’s Book for Grade 8 for the Senior Phase is an integrated language and literature series for Home Language. It offers a wide selection of texts and activities that cover all the requirements of CAPS. The series:

• follows a learner-centred approach and includes self-, peer and group work and assessment.
• enables learners to arrive at and demonstrate insight and understanding through active participation, discussion and negotiation.
• develops effective communication strategies and language skills, which are integrated and related to real-life situations, allowing learners to converse spontaneously and to deliver speeches.
• challenges, encourages and supports learners in the planning, execution, monitoring and evaluation of their own learning.
• provides a wide range of study notes and integrated language activities.
• provides opportunities to plan and write transactional and creative texts.
• guides learners to relate to what they read and to how they view the world.

A reading book like never before! The English for Life Reader for Grade 8 Home Language was developed according to the requirements of the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement for teaching reading in the Senior Phase. The book is divided according to different genres of texts appropriate for learners in this phase. The English for Life Reader comprises short stories, a drama, poems and folk tales. The learners will expand their reading skills and language knowledge. To help the teacher with teaching, the following information is available in the reader: - Questions about the texts that are formulated by using cognitive levels. - Clarification of difficult texts. - Definitions of complex words.

Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials.  This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes. This title is suitable for all exam boards. Features Full accessible notes ideal for students Additional information and reading lists A range of illustrations, both decorative and explanatory A school edition that is both accessible and academically rigorous Part of the acclaimed Oxford Schools Shakespeare series