Skills in English is a lively, stimulating full-colour resource designed to develop the skills that students need to improve their performance in English and enable them to achieve their full potential at Key Stage 3 and beyond. Student Book 3R is aimed at students working at National Curriculum Levels 5-7, with extension material to Level 8 in the Teacher's Resource File.


Helping you to get the best from the Framework

Skills in English is a lively, stimulating full-colour resource designed to develop the skills that students need to improve their performance in English and enable them to achieve their full potential at Key Stage 3 and beyond. Skills in English offers full coverage of the National Curriculum and objectives of the Framework for Teaching English Years 7-9, year by year, and provides a wide range of exciting fiction, poetry, drama, non-fiction and media texts. Structured, differentiated activities and end of section assignments to help with assessment and target setting are included. Each Skills in English student book has an accompanying interactive Student CD-ROM so that students' ICT skills are fully developed within the context of English.





The Skills in English series is designed to cover all the National Curriculum requirements using a wide range of texts. The student book focuses on reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. It provides differentiated activities that integrate word, sentence and text-level objectives.

The Student Book:* teaches the proposed Framework objectives explicitlySkills in English mirrors the structure of the proposed Framework, making it easier for you to implement the Framework with your students. To teach the objectives explicitly and systematically, each Student Book is divided into the following sections:ReadingReading literatureReading non-fictionWritingCreative writingWriting non-fictionSpeaking and listeningLanguage in actionEnabling revision and consolidation of word- and sentence-level skills