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P.A.U.L. D. is a manual for the German course in lower secondary schools. It covers all learning areas of the course and goes beyond them in the field of methodological education.

The requirements of LehrplanPLUS are consistently applied in P.A.U.L. D.

The fundamental principle of the book’s structure is the spiral design of the curriculum: The student volumes are conceived as a whole so that certain elements of the curriculum are addressed and expanded repeatedly, allowing students to acquire comprehensive knowledge of the subject combined with basic skills by the end of lower secondary education, enabling them to work successfully in upper secondary education.

Focus on competence – Learning to learn

Learning, retention and recall methods – Effective preparation for a test – Dealing with (real) texts – Creating presentations/speeches – Designing structural sketches/creating mind maps – Opportunities for interdisciplinary learning – Initiating and promoting individual learning processes and approaches ...

Reading – Working with texts

Orientation towards text types (e.g. fairy tales, legends, ballads ...) and thematic focuses (e.g. friendship, generation conflicts) – Preparing texts through working stimuli serving two functions: They reflect the possible working process during lessons and facilitate preparation, and are designed so that students can independently approach the whole text or work on selected aspects – Balanced and functional distribution of analytical and productive working stimuli – Methodologically guided handling of real and literary texts – Promotion of reading techniques.

... and Media

Fundamentally based on a broad concept of media – The book as media – Introduction to the use of electronic media and the Internet – Critical messaging – Film analysis – Media production.

Speaking and listening ...

Recognition and use of different speech intentions – Oral narration and reporting – Narrating to an audience – Speech training – A theatrical unit in each volume, from performance to analysis – Live recitation of poems – Audio texts on the accompanying CD.

... Writing ...

Systematic planning, writing and revising different forms of texts – Creative writing ...

... and correct writing

An extensive methods unit for learning spelling strategies – Systematic development of selected spelling problems – Extensive material for individual practice.

Use of language and linguistic investigation and reflection

A very systematic, but based on the principles of discovery learning, approach to important grammatical phenomena in specially defined sections – Linking language teaching with other German course tasks according to the concept of an integrated approach – high proportion of exercises in these sections as well.

That is also P.A.U.L. D.

The dual structure of the table of contents reflects the interconnection of topics, methods and skills.

Each section begins with an introductory double page.