This book provides a swift and effortless transition to the Australian Curriculum. Each of the twelve chapters is cleverly structured to simultaneously identify and integrate the three strands of Language, Literature and Literacy. Key features: an innovative and accessible approach to the new curriculum; explicit and in-depth teaching of all content descriptions; self-contained double-page spreads focusing on specific teaching points related to language, literature or literacy; practical exercises and activities, with assessment tasks at the end of each chapter; a wide range of rich and appealing literary, non-literary and multimodal texts, including Indigenous and Asian texts; explicit teaching of grammar to develop knowledge and skills in language use; emphasis on teaching students to use English powerfully and effectively in written, spoken and multimodal texts for varied purposes and audiences; a comprehensive glossary explaining terms students need to know with the new curriculum.