Collins Exploring English Literature Reader for Class 8 by Dr K. Padmini Shankar

Exploring English is a multi-skill course that focuses on all aspects of language learning to help learners develop communicative competence. Exploring English Literature Readers aim to introduce students to a rich treasure of indian and global writing through a careful selection of stories, poems and plays, which are both classic and contemporary.

Key Features

• Texts carefully selected to introduce students to a wide range of literary genres.
• Literary devices and figures of speech identified and explained contextually.
• Objective and inferential questions to test students' comprehension of the reading passage.
• Vocabulary exercises to enrich students' language and improve their understanding of new words.
• A variety of activites to develop students' personal, functional, creative and formal writing styles. 
• Short author biographies accompanying the reading texts.
• Suggestions for futher reading to enhance stuents' literary experience.
• Lists of literary genres and literary terms with definitions at the end of each book.