- Each Student Book contains six units which can be used progressively or selectively, to fit in with your scheme of work
- Key objectives and assessment focuses are clustered together to provide effective coverage of the Framework and National Curriculum requirements
- Formative and summative assessment are integrated throughout including progress checks, feedback and end-of-unit assessment tasks
- Each unit includes additional special features: Sharpen Punctuation and Sharpen Spelling which allow students to focus on key areas of punctuation and grammar; Highlight Thinking boxes focus on key areas of thinking skills

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Introduction.
1. Playing with words
- Changing English
- How writers create excitement
- New words
- Standard English, accent and dialect
- Speaking your own language
- The power of words
- Design a new chocolate bar wrapper
- Assessment task: Words are fun!
2. Crafting writing
- Choices writers make
- Following the development of a writer's ideas
- Organising your own writing
- Establishing the tone of a piece of writing
- Writing to entertain
- Exploring the structure of a text
- Exploring the writer's techniques
- Writing your own ending
- Using figurative language in poetry
- Assessment task: Snappy writing
3. Influence and argument
- The words you choose
- Body language
- Tone of voice
- Using visual images to influence
- Using words to influence the reader
- How writers and speakers persuade
- Making a point forcefully
- Assessment task: Hamburgers: friend or foe?
Unit 4. Creating structures
- The organisation and presentation of newspaper articles
- Writing a formal letter
- Linking paragraphs and sentences
- The organisation of leaflets
- Studying textbooks
- Comparing texts
- Writing your own text to entertain
- Making notes
- Assessment task: Writing a biography of a famous person
Unit 5. Assessing evidence
- Exploring a theme
- How to refer to evidence in a text
- Identifying the writer's attitude
- Recognising language differences
- Exploring the writer's comments
- Weighing up the evidence
- Does Nessie exist? How to write a balanced response
- Assessment task: The deep blue sea
Unit 6. Scripts and sketches
- What does drama mean to you?
- Presenting speech in writing
- Dialogue
- Stage directions
- Different ways of writing scripts
- Studying a complete play
- The narrator
- The playwright's ideas
- Assessment task: Spotlight!