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These print, video, online and electronic resources are to support English.

Note: all resources for this WACE Course are recommendations only. Each school should decide on specific titles for their students in consultation with their school community and sector guidelines.

Phase of Development
Resources are typically relevant, but not exclusively, for:
  • Early Adolescence
  • Late Adolescence


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To locate all evaluated English resources, click on the links below:
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Texts
The texts that form the vehicles for the content of the English learning area include:
  • everyday texts
  • informational texts
  • mass media texts
  • literature
Literature includes a wide variety of creative and imaginative writing, oral performance and texts that contribute to an appreciation of students' own cultural heritages and the heritages of other cultures.

To locate suitable novels, short stories, nonfiction narratives and other resources in the Resource Bank there are a number of searches you may use:
  • Which Book?
    This page on the CMIS website links to reviews and bibliographic details of books taken from the CMIS publication Fiction Focus: New Titles For Teenagers.

    These reviews are written by English teachers, teacher librarians or other professionals in the field of children's literature.

  • For an more extensive search:
    • Fiction [Choose Late Adolescence and/or Early Adolescence]
      These searches will find an extensive collection of novels, picture books, audio books, videos and supporting websites.
Specific searches include:
NOTE: Titles found by all of the above searches are generally not more than ten years old.

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Student Textbooks
Rod Quin, Hugh Rayner, Alex Solosy, Wendy Cody
English Courseways.
Pearson Education Australia, 2005
ISBN 0 7339 7303 5
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Don Munro
English Course of Study: Units 2A and 2B
Heinemann, 2006. (New Directions)
ISBN 1 74081 618 8
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English Course of Study: Units 3A and 3B
Heinemann, 2006. (New Directions)
ISBN 1 74081 619 6
Due October 2006
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Suggested English Texts 27/11/07

Suggested English Texts 27/11/07

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