iWonder is a new 1st year book for the Junior Certificate Higher and Ordinary level.
• A new and accessible 1st year book for Ordinary and Higher Level English, featuring:
Fiction
Poetry
Personal Writing (non-fiction)
Drama
Newspapers and Advertising
Sections on Writing Skills
Grammar/Spelling
• Closely aligned with key skills and principles of new Junior Cycle NCCA framework
• Spacious layout with a clear, visually attractive and colourful design
• Greater variety of tasks, exercises and activities than in any other 1st year English textbook
• Diverse and exciting selection of much-loved texts and contemporary literature
• Clear learning objectives for each unit
• Can be taught consecutively or thematically
• Reading comprehensions follow a connect-extend-challenge progression. (Ideal for differentiation in a mixed ability class)
• Enhanced grammar and language elements in line with national strategy on literacy, including short exercises that will reinforce students’ knowledge
• Young Writer’s Toolkit with helpful sections on:
writing short stories
describing
writing diaries and letters
analysing and writing poems
grammar and spelling
• Thinking Routines to help students organise their responses to texts
• Writing Models and Graphic Organisers provide structured support for students’ writing
• Useful ‘I Can’ statements after each unit for students’ self-assessment
• Excellent range of tasks for pair- and group-work
