Essential English Skills Year 9 offers systematic teaching of three core areas of literacy: • Language skills - 10 units focusing on spelling, grammar and vocabulary • Reading skills - 10 units focusing on essential elements of different text types and how to read them • Writing skills - 10 units focusing on how to prepare different written pieces Each unit of work employs a consistent methodology designed to ensure optimum benefit to all students. The components of this methodology are: • A teaching page that explains the basic concept • An entry-level exercise page that reinforces the basic concept • A mid-level exercise page for most students • A high-level exercise page for the most able students Each exercise in the language skills and reading skills sections concludes with a writing challenge, inviting students to apply the concept they have mastered in their own way.