Chrysalis - Set - 2nd / New Edition (2025)

s - Set - 2nd / New Edition (2025)

This exciting new edition of the bestselling English textbook Chrysalis comprehensively covers the entire three-year English Junior Cycle course.

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

The Chrysalis package includes:

• Student textbook
• Student Workbook
• Teacher’s Resource Book
• Online resources
• Free eBook

Benefits for Teachers

• One book covering all three years of the Junior Cycle course.
• Provides a clear bridge between primary and post-primary English teaching.
• Suitable for mixed-ability classes at Ordinary and Higher Levels.
• All 39 Learning Outcomes are facilitated through imaginative and engaging activities to promote student knowledge, understanding and skills.
• Students’ Learning Intentions and Success Criteria are expertly aligned with the Learning Outcomes of the Junior Cycle English Specification.
• Careful balance of oral language, writing and reading activities that accommodate differentiation and promote knowledge development, enhance understanding and hone students’ creative and interpretive skills.
• Individual, pair and group activities provide numerous opportunities for teachers to develop each student’s voice, build confidence and nurture student well–being.
• Chrysalis – New Edition provides a solid foundation for the Leaving Certificate.

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.

Student Workbook

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.

Teacher's Resource Book

Detailed Learning Outcomes for each chapter of the student textbook.

• Blank template scheme-of-work guide for each term and year to enhance and support teacher planning.
• Sample assessment sheets for both formative and summative assessment.
  Bank of exam-style questions for revision purposes.
• Solutions to grammar exercises, website links and resources are inCLUDED