Ticking Mind

This book, designed for students of VCE English studying Wordsworth poetry, includes 13 of Wordsworth best known poems. The poems are categorised into three thematic groups to support students to understand how they interlink and are visually indexed with theme and symbol icons to scaffold students to identify recurring ideas and images throughout the poems. To help students understand Wordsworth's poetry and write essays on it for SACs and the Unit 3&4 English exam, this text also provides students with:

• An introduction to each poem
• A glossary of unfamiliar language in each poem
• An analysis of each poem
• Thinking activities to help understand each poem
• Writing activities on each poem to develop analytic essay skills
• Writing activities on groups of poems to develop skills to discuss a range of poems in response to an essay task

Ticking Mind’s new edition of Macbeth takes a revolutionary approach to presenting this staple of High School English classrooms. Unlike conventional Macbeth textbooks which only support students to understand that ‘gist’ of a scene or the whole play, Ticking Mind’s textbook breaks each scene into digestible 30 line chunks which scaffold students to actively understand the language and imagery at work in Shakespeare’s play. 

Ticking Mind's new edition of Romeo and Juliet takes a revolutionary approach to presenting this staple of High School English classrooms.

The Senior English Writing Handbook (4th Edition) has been written for the new VCE English study design. 

The Senior English Writing Handbook (5th Edition) is Ticking Mind’s VCE English textbook that will be current from 2025. This is not just another textbook filled with endless descriptions and information about each area of the English and EAL study design. Instead, The Senior English Writing Handbook shows students how to write successfully for each area of study in the new English and EAL study design. Each chapter focuses on a different area of study, guiding students through its aim and purpose and showing them how to develop their vocabulary and write purposeful, meaningful and sophisticated sentences and paragraphs. By providing students with a range of annotated exemplars and step by step instructions for how to write, the Handbook helps every VCE English and EAL student achieve success.

Practical strategies, resources and tools for every senior English student.

The Student Guide To Writing Better Sentences In The English Classroom is Ticking Mind’s new grammar textbook for English students.

This is not just another grammar book filled with dull exercises and pointless activities. The Student Guide To Writing Better Sentences In The English Classroom 1 shows you how sentences are constructed using parts of speech, punctuation and different structures. Rather than looking at these complex ideas on their own, this book shows students how to use these grammatical ideas to create better sentences in the context of six common text types.

This is not just another grammar book filled with dull exercises and pointless activities. The Student Guide To Writing Better Sentences In The English Classroom 2 (2nd Edition) shows you how sentences are constructed using parts of speech, punctuation and different structures. Rather than looking at these complex ideas on their own, this book shows students how to use these grammatical ideas to create better sentences in the context of seven common text types.

The VM Literacy Handbook 1 is a workbook for students undertaking Units 1&2 VM Literacy or VPC Literacy. This workbook is filled with a huge range of every day texts with different purposes – from workplace texts, social media posts and online campaigns through to pamphlets and street side posters. Accompanying activities will guide students to explore, evaluate and respond to the different purposes, features, content and issues within the texts through prior knowledge activities, note taking, writing, speaking and research activities. Students will also be scaffolded to develop their own ideas and create their own versions of texts they study throughout the workbook.

The VM Literacy Handbook 2 is a workbook for students undertaking Units 3&4 VM Literacy or VPC Literacy. This workbook is filled with a huge range of every day texts with different purposes – from workplace texts, social media posts and online campaigns through to pamphlets and street side posters. Accompanying activities will guide students to explore, evaluate and respond to the different purposes, features and issues within the texts through prior knowledge activities, note taking, writing, speaking and research activities. Students will also be scaffolded to develop their own ideas and create their own versions of texts they study throughout the workbook.