Description

Fresh, exciting and engaging text extracts, both traditional and contemporary, are used throughout from novels, plays, films, digital texts and multi-modal texts

Units are carefully structured around the recommended genre-based approach and cover the following genres: fiction, poetry, film, drama and Shakespeare

Touchstones 1 also includes a unit covering non-fiction

These sequenced units of learning begin by building and consolidating a strong knowledge base for each genre, build oral communication, reading and writing skills, and end with a project

They are designed to be either covered in sequence or to be dipped into and out, for ease of use

A stand-alone Shakespeare unit, a first for a programme, introduces students to the world of Shakespeare and builds knowledge and understanding of the dramatic categories and structure, language, grammar and punctuation of a Shakespearean text

Each unit begins with a knowledge organiser or a writer’s toolkit of genre-based critical vocabulary and ends with a Test Your Knowledge quiz

In Touchstones 2, each unit ends with Focus on the Final Assessment and Exam Questions