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FOR THE STUDENT

1. A rich selection of literary texts and poems by well-known writers—deals with universal themes and current social issues and enhances literary appreciation
2. Mapped to the CISCE curriculum and custom-designed to match the requirements
3. Extensive coverage of the language skills—Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing skills—built on graded, age-appropriate concepts and activities
4. Contextual teaching of Grammar, Vocabulary and other skills, based on the CISCE curriculum
5. Focus on fluency and accuracy skills along with communication skills
6. New features include:
   • QR code-linked resources to promote a hands-on learning approach
   • Pre-reading to prepare students for the lesson through fun and enjoyable tasks to stimulate thinking
   • Embedded Questions to help assess comprehension of the reading texts, develop HOTS and support multilingualism
7. Assessments as an integral part of the teaching-learning process by distinguishing between different kinds of assessments:
   • Assessment for Learning
   • Assessment as Learning
   • Assessment of Learning
8. Linked Integrated Worksheets and Workbooks for extended and graded grammar, vocabulary, writing and comprehension practice
9. Students’ Smart App for language enrichment and extended practice
10. Reading Corner with selected literary masterpieces from the CISCE recommended reading list

FOR THE TEACHER

Lesson Modules

• Lesson plan: guidelines with teaching strategies; embedded icons with notes to help the teachers integrate assessments in their teaching methods; highlighted segments focus on the transactional theory of teaching in the classroom; embedded questions (with answers) to facilitate development of 21^st century skills
• Question Bank: questions in varied formats
• Students' Book Answer Key

Worksheets with Answer Key

• Unit-wise worksheets for grammar, vocabulary and writing  

Comprehension Passages

• Passages with questions in varied formats with answer key

Sample Creative-writing Passages classes VI, VII and VIII

• Extra comprehension passages for practice—Narrative passages, Discursive passages, Organising and Structuring thoughts, Composition, Writing a story, Picture stimulus, Describing a person

Listening and Speaking 

• More Listening and Speaking tasks with audio support

Sample Assessment Papers in line with the current, changed pattern. (with Answer Key)

• Levels 1–5: Sample assessment papers for term I and Term II with the answer keys 
• Levels 6,7 and 8: Sample Assessment Paper I (Language) and Sample Assessment Paper II (Literature) with the answer keys.
• Question-format conforms to the latest Class X ICSE board papers.

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