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News Extra adds another ten titles to the innovative, award-winning factual series, The News. In the popular newspaper/magazine style News Extra provides very useful reference and reading resources for pupils wishing to explore our world and beyond. A range of more challenging text types and text forms presented in this series provides information while opening up opportunies for further discussion and extension at this level. Linked closely to the Key Learning Areas, the topics chosen provide a terrific way to integrate literacy and curriculum studies. 

News Extra Teacher Resource Book continues to provide a full set of teaching notes offering numerous ways to introduce, treat and extend each edition in the series. Meeting the requirements of best literacy practices, ample opportunities are provided to use shared, independent and guided reading strategies. The assessment component allows teachers to see whether students are achieving the stated outcomes. An expanded range of integral, specific and generic blackline masters for each title support the teaching ideas.