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Key Features
- Comprehension checks factual understanding through ‘wh-’ and ‘reference-to-the-context’ questions.
- Vocabulary includes exercises on contextual usage, modes of vocabulary acquisition and figures of speech.
- Grammar includes graded practice tasks accompanied by simple explanations.
- Study Skills includes graded phonics, spelling and dictionary activities.
- Listening develops aural comprehension skills through various kinds of factual questions.
- Speaking includes role plays, conversation practice and public speaking tasks through solo, pair and group work.
- Writing includes guided and free writing exercises that develop functional and creative writing skills.
- The Activity in the poetry chapters includes exercises which combine hands-on tasks with creative writing skills. Every task includes plenty of scaffolding in the form of suggested vocabulary and reference samples.
- Now I can … is a self-assessment checklist at the end of every chapter.
- Read at Leisure includes suggestions for further reading related to the author or theme of the reading passage.
- Cross-curricular Projects, of which there are three, cover literature based activities that revisit the themes covered in each book.
- A glossary of literary terms and genres at the end of the book acts as a ready reference.
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Additional Information
Title Collins Enriching English Reader Class 8 Publisher Collins India Author Ritu Pankaj & Shradha Anand ISBN / Product Code 9789353027032 Category School Books Standard Class 8 Edition Latest Edition Binding Paperback No of Pages 175 Subject English Country of origin India Board CBSE HSN Code 4901