Pearson Ace with Aster English Coursebook for Class 8

Ace with Aster: (Grades 1-8), a series of books crafted curriculum, aims at addressing the growing need of learners to acquire mastery over the English language and enables them to be well prepared and future-ready.

This course has been designed to teach language through communication. A theme-based approach in all the curricular areas facilitates in addressing issues related to the area under study in a holistic manner. The themes and texts are child-centric wherein the learners move from the self to the immediate surrounding and further to the wider environment. The course focuses on a wide range of learning experiences. Activities, such as research, poster making, discussions, and craft ensure that learning remains a joyful experience, where understanding is not just based on what they learn but also on the relevance of the learning.

Different aspects of language learning are covered through these features in the coursebook:

• A Pre-reading page precedes all the chapters- prose and poems. It consists of the learning outcomes, a warm-up activity, the digital desk, which has information on the digital assets linked to the chapter and a section for integrated learning through the cross-curricular connection.
• Comprehension comprises questions and activities for testing factual, predictive, inferential, evaluative and analytical skills.
• Word Wonder includes contextual vocabulary with interesting exercises.
• Learn about language comprises graded grammar topic, sequentially explained with ample reinforcement.
• Language lab helps practice phonics and actively develops listening and speaking skills for appropriate use of language.
• Composition lays the foundation of good writing skills in functional and academic writing. Activity is an extension of the learning in the chapter and includes fun activities, such as games, quizzes or puzzles that can be done without much teacher intervention.
• Further reading provides additional reading suggestions to inculcate the reading skills in learners.
• Twenty-first-century learning skills segregated into four parameters namely, critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and communication help learners keep pace with the dynamic world we live in.
• Life skills have been seamlessly blended into the chapters through a question that hones learners' thinking skills and creates self-awareness.