Chrysalis (Incl. Workbook) New edition

Notice: 2025 edition

Fully updated, Chrysalis – New Edition aims to develop each student’s knowledge, skills and understanding through engaging content and appropriate assessment tasks.

Student textbook

• Divided into three sections:
  • First Year – Starting Out – Chapters 1-5
  • Second Year – Moving On – Chapters 6-10
  • Third Year – Discovering More – Chapters 11-16
• Sixteen chapters containing appropriately chosen thematic material including: Writing About Myself, A World of Books, The World Around Us, Conflict, and Challenge & Adventure.
• Genre-specific course work is fully covered: Media & Communication, Poetry, Fiction, Drama and Film.
• Dedicated chapters on Exam Skills, CBA preparation and the Written Assessment Task.
• Comprehensive Glossary containing explanations of key terms.
• Each chapter covers the three key strands in the Junior Cycle English Specification – Oral Language, Reading and Writing.
• Distinct focus on consolidating knowledge, developing students’ understanding and honing their skills.
• Sequenced activities in each chapter develop students’ understanding of the audience for purpose of different texts and how writers shape language accordingly.
• Learning Intentions are written in student-friendly language and positioned at the beginning of each chapter.
• Multiple opportunities for students to participate in self- and peer-assessment.
• Group work and collaborative learning activities are not just an after-thought but carefully scaffolded and embedded into the text, building student confidence, creativity and class participation.
• Engaging and wide-ranging material including non-literary texts, multimodal texts, visual texts, speeches and a collection of poetry, media, drama, fiction and film texts.
• Relevant and inviting questions, discussion points and creative exercises develop students’ comprehension and communication skills.

A separate book accompanying the student textbook:

• Contains exercises that will enhance and consolidate students’ classroom learning and written expression.
• Dedicated Language, Grammar, Punctuation and Vocabulary chapter containing key terms and exercises where students can practise and develop their grammatical skills.
• Includes flexible worksheets that can be used for self- and peer- assessment by students and for summative assessment by teachers.
• Contains templates for key writing tasks, such as writing a film review, personal letter, etc.
• Builds over time into a collection of texts for student’s Written Assessment Task.