Edco’s bestselling Touchstones for Junior Cycle English returns in a fully revised Second Edition, offering the most comprehensive and dynamic English package on the market.
Expertly written by renowned English teacher Clare Madden, New Touchstones 1 (2nd Edition) has been redesigned to inspire and support First Year students from day one. This exciting new edition includes:
A Student Textbook
A Student Activity Book
A Free Student e-Book
A Teacher’s Resource Book Free Digital Resources
STUDENT TEXTBOOK
All 22 First Year Learning Outcomes are covered with emphasis on the three strands of the specification: oral language, reading and writing
Clear, simple design to help students focus and prevent cognitive overload
Fresh, exciting and engaging text extracts, both traditional and contemporary, updated and used throughout; flash fiction, two novels, a film and diary entries now included in fiction, film and non-fiction units
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Units on fiction, poetry, film, drama and non-fiction carefully structured around the recommended genre-based approach
NEW studied text sections covering two possible novels (Private Peaceful and The Giver) and a film (Young Woman and the Sea) which include a wide variety of reading, writing, communication and performance tasks
NEW ‘Drop into…’ sections allow students to dive into text extracts sooner
Units are designed to be either covered in sequence or dipped into and out, for ease of use
Units begin with a knowledge organiser of critical vocabulary and end with a Test Your Knowledge section
A stand-alone Shakespeare unit, with a focus on the world of Shakespeare and Shakespearean grammar and punctuation
Highly scaffolded tasks effectively support mixed-ability classes
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Retrieval practice opportunities build on prior learning
Oral language supports include a strong focus on using structured and meaningful group discussion
Reading supports include:
Effective reading strategies integrated into tasks to develop reading skills
A dedicated reading unit including over 40 books appealing to this age group as well as engaging group tasks to encourage and promote reading for pleasure
Writing supports include:
Scaffolded writing tasks (models and writer’s toolkits) that promote the craft of writing
A skills development approach for writing to analyse, beginning in first year with annotation, quotation and inference skills
A focus on development of high-level vocabulary throughout
NEW Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG) sections integrated within each unit
The most comprehensive & dynamic English package on the market
Engaging end-of-unit projects
Can be used to prepare for the Classroom-Based Assessments (CBAs)
Oral language and writing projects provide students with opportunities to develop a personal writing voice and to experiment with and enjoy elements of public speaking and performance
Clear success criteria are provided
Step-by-step instructions and tasks with complementary teacher mark sheet and whole class feedback sheet for each project, provided in the Teacher’s Resource Book
STUDENT ACTIVITY BOOK
New Touchstones 1 Student Activity Book provides additional material, questions and activities to complement textbook content, including:
Meaningful scaffolding to approach written tasks
NEW Literacy Boost sections, providing simplified versions of text extracts with differentiated activities to effectively teach mixed-ability classes
Carefully designed graphic organisers to support thinking and writing
A range of retrieval practice templates to support students using effective learning techniques
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TEACHER’S RESOURCE BOOK
New Touchstones 1 Teacher’s Resource Book provides all the practical support you need to teach the course, including:
Planning supports:
• A comprehensive guide to planning
• Detailed, step-by-step unit plans which match each activity with a learning outcome
• Three different types of planning to navigate the programme with ease: genre based, learning in focus and a mixture of both
• Subject department plans
Assessment supports:
• A variety of retrieval practice resources and activity ideas
• Teacher mark sheets and whole-class feedback sheets for projects
• Mini-assessments for each unit
NEW First Year poetry supports:
• Revision notes for poems, including key quotes, language features and themes for each poem
First Year novel supports:
• Knowledge organisers for selected novels
• Generic character map and plot road organisers, personal response discussion and short writing tasks
Additional supports:
• Blank templates are also provided for use with teachers’ own choice of texts
• Solutions for a wide range of questions
Digital Resources
Teachers and students can access the New Touchstones 1 interactive e-book at www.edcolearning.ie, plus a bank of free digital resources, including:
› Editable PowerPoint presentations for each unit and for studied poems
› Editable units of learning and templates to support planning
› A wide range of videos
› Audio tracks available online
