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    English for Life Reader Grade 8 Home Language Reader
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    English for Life Reader Grade 8 Home Language Reader

    By Elaine Ridge

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    A reading book like never before! The English for Life Reader for Grade 8 Home Language was developed according to the requirements of the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement for teaching reading in the Senior Phase. The book is divided according to different genres of texts appropriate for learners in this phase. The English for Life Reader comprises short stories, a drama, poems and folk tales.

    The learners will expand their reading skills and language knowledge. To help the teacher with teaching, the following information is available in the reader:
    - Questions about the texts that are formulated by using cognitive levels.
    - Clarification of difficult texts.
    - Definitions of complex words.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBest Books
    Release dateOct 31, 2013
    ISBN9781775891062
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    English for Life Reader Grade 8 Home Language Reader
    Author

    Elaine Ridge

    Elaine Ridge has taught English at a variety of high schools in South Africa and the UK. She has wide experience as a teacher educator and curriculum designer at Stellenbosch University and the University of the Western Cape. Her special interest is in materials development and in reading strategies, the topic of her doctoral research. She believes that learners’ success in the literature programme depends on their personal engagement with the set books, their real enjoyment of reading and their growing confidence in their ability to work independently. She has written textbooks for English and compiled anthologies for the CAPS curriculum. She has also written short stories for children.

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