'Sailmaker Plus' offers the full text of the widely popular drama text, Sailmaker, by award-winning writer Alan Spence - plus an introduction by the author outlining his motives in writing it, and a wide range of background material by Jane Cooper.

This book brings together the essential close reading skills needed by students taking part in the Broad General Education, Levels 3-4 (in S1 to S3).

This new edition of the National 4 & 5 English textbook is fully up to date for National 4 and 5 courses, including the latest updates to National 5. It recognises the removal of Purpose and Audience from both courses, and includes new material for Reading for Understanding, Analysis, and Evaluation at National 5, and for the National 5 Spoken Language Assessment. Throughout the book, the necessary skills or areas of knowledge are introduced gradually, tested with brief activities, demonstrated again, and then reinforced with end-of-chapter activities and questions that mirror SQA...

Exam Board: SQA Level: Higher Subject: English First Teaching: August 2018 First Exam: June 2019 Ensure your students are prepared for every aspect of their assessment with the only textbook that offers comprehensive coverage of the updated syllabus requirements. - Written by a highly experienced bestselling author - Covers the updated specification with all the new topics in the SQA examinations - Provides thorough exam preparation, with graded Practice Exercises - Organised to make it easy to plan, manage and monitor student progress

Syllabus: CfE (Curriculum for Excellence, from Education Scotland) and SQA Level: BGE S1-3: Third & Fourth Level Subject: English Build, strengthen and extend pupils' skills with this creative and collaborative approach to English. As they progress through a rich selection of text extracts, active learning tasks and end-of-chapter assessments, pupils will enjoy developing their Talk and Listening, Writing, Critical Reading and RUAE skills throughout S1-S3. Covering all CfE Third and Fourth Level Benchmarks for Literacy and English, this ready-made and fully differentiated BGE course...

Syllabus: CfE (Curriculum for Excellence, from Education Scotland) and SQA Level: BGE (S1-S3) and Senior Phase (National 4/5) Subject: Literacy Words are powerful. Enrich your vocabulary and you will be able to speak, listen, read and write more effectively. Explore important aspects of vocabulary - decoding words, easily confused words, groups of words and new words - through simple explanations, strategies, progressive activities and revision tasks. This is the only book available that includes a dedicated chapter on inclusive language, to show students how their words have the...

Syllabus: CfE (Curriculum for Excellence, from Education Scotland) and SQA Level: BGE (S1-S3) and Senior Phase (National 4/5) Subject: Literacy Grammar matters. Understand how to use and structure language correctly to make your meaning clear. Learn about parts of speech, punctuation, sentences, paragraphs and spelling as you are guided through simple explanations, strategies, progressive activities and revision tasks. Grammar for Literacy equips pupils with the building blocks for success in exams, coursework and adult life, and facilitates literacy development across the...