Achievement English - The Close Reading of Language and Literature at Year 12 is designed to support the teaching of English at Year 12 in the New Zealand classroom today.

This workbook is written for the English syllabus at NCEA Level 2.  It allows students to develop and practise their skills in understanding and analysing the wealth of written, oral and visual text that surrounds them in school and in life beyond school.  It provides write-on opportunities for easy practice and allows self-moderation through model answers.  

It builds a useful revision resource to study from for external assessments and assists teachers with additional material to extend their classroom teaching and homework exercises. It also helps parents follow their students' work and be confident that the essentials have been covered.  

The material presented here is based on successful classroom teaching by the authors and the passages for analysis have been used effectively in the classroom.