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Targeting

EnglishTargeting

EnglishLower

Primary

Introduction

Reading, Writing, Speaking and ListeningEnglish is all about communication. It’s fundamental to understanding what we read and hear, and organising how we write and speak. English is about the stories we read for pleasure, and the books and web pages we read for information. It’s also about the emails you send to friends and the words of a favourite song or poem.

The Targeting English series of Student Books, Teaching Guides and Big Books is a comprehensive, integrated scheme for exploring the many ways in which we use English. The series provides comprehensive coverage of the primary English curriculum.

Targeting English will help students to fully explore English. Each Targeting English student book contains high-interest fiction and nonfiction text samples. Themed units open with a variety of text samples for students to read. Each text adds something different to the topic and has its own purpose, audience, structure and composition.

As you complete the activities in this book, you’ll discover that English follows patterns. Some types of texts behave in the same way, and once you recognise the patterns, reading and writing become easier and more enjoyable. You can read and listen with more understanding and find better ways to organise what you want to say or write.

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Texts are drawn from literature (classic and contemporary), media and everyday life. They include books, postcards, brochures, lists, signs, emails and poems. The real text samples used in Targeting English mean that grammar and text features are studied in context. Many of the text samples come from books that are readily available, so expanding each topic with further reading is easy to achieve.

Targeting English has a full-colour Student Book, Teaching Guide + CD-ROM and Big Book + CD-ROM at these levels:

• Lower Primary• Middle Primary Book 1• Middle Primary Book 2• Upper Primary Book 1• Upper Primary Book 2

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Unit 1: Turtles and Wombats

Poetry Adjectives

2

Text typesGrammar and text features PageUnit

Unit 2: Artists at work

Information report

Nouns

10

DescriptionNarrative

Pronouns

24

Unit 4: Which bridge is best?

ProcedureEmail

Verbs and adverbs

32

Unit 5: Holiday in Thailand

DescriptionNarrative

Adjectives

46

Narrative Subjects and verbs

54

Contents

Assessment: Units 1 and 2 20

Assessment: Units 3 and 4 42

Assessment: Units 5 and 6 64

Unit 3: Small dino, BIG DINO

Unit 6: Grandma on board

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ExplanationTable

Conjunctions

68

Text typesGrammar and text features PageUnit

Sentences

76

Exposition Compound words

90

RecountPostcard

Synonyms and

antonyms 98

DescriptionAdvertisements

Information report

Punctuation

112

Narrative Word sounds

120

Assessment: Units 7 and 8 86

Assessment: Units 9 and 10 108

Assessment: Units 11 and 12 130

Unit 7: Dry and wet and dry again

Unit 8: Pancake Tuesday

Unit 10: Blue Poles

Unit 11: WhERE I LIVE

Unit 12: “Here Dragon, Dragon, Dragon ...”

ProcedureList

Recipe

Unit 9: Save the sea

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About this student bookEach unit starts with a double page of texts on a topic, such as football, food or what’s in your garden. Read all the texts. Some of them have a similar look to each other, while others look different. Some have titles, while others don’t. Look at the pictures. What do they tell you about the topic? Do the pictures have captions?

Following the text pages are six pages of activities about the texts. Complete the questions about text features (In the Texts) and comprehension (Read and Learn), and the writing and drawing activities (Your Turn). Use a pencil. If you want to change what you’ve written, rub it out and try again. You’ll also need some coloured pens or pencils.

Activities at the end of the unit focus on an aspect of English grammar, such as adverbs or sentences.

Answers to questions are in the Targeting English Teaching Guide.

Word Hunt! — Find the letters and make a word! You’ll find letters scattered over the pages of each unit. Write the letters you find on the top row of the answer box in each unit. Then, unscramble the letters to write a word on the bottom row. (hINT: the word will have something to do with the topic of the unit!)

My Stuff pages — these pages are a place for you to express yourself! Write down what you think about the units you’ve just completed, and note down things you have read, seen or been to lately.

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Assessment pages — these pages test your understanding of what you are learning in Targeting English. The assessment format is similar to that used in Australia’s national literacy assessment program.

Answers to assessment questions are in the Targeting English Teaching Guide.

You’ll find handy dictionaries about text types, grammar and punctuation on pages viii to xi, and an index on page 134.

Each unit begins with several texts on a topic.

Activities help you explore the texts.

There are assessment pages after every two units.

There are places to draw as well as write.

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