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.

 

There are 176 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by Cambridge University Press .

Alison Rucco has decades of teaching experience in both state and private schools. She has taught English at all levels, from primary to year 12, and is a long-time marker at Year 12 and in Australia-wide standardized tests.

This book has the following chapters: Part I. Expression Skills: Unit 1. Spelling aids - homophones; Unit 2. Spelling aids - silent letters; Unit 3. Spelling aids - prefixes; Unit 4. Spelling aids - suffixes; Unit 5. Grammar - parts of speech; Unit 6. Grammar - common errors; Unit 7. Punctuation; Unit 8. Enrich your vocabulary - jobs and careers; Unit 9. Enrich your vocabulary - scientific and mathematical words; Unit 10. Enrich your vocabulary - countries and people; Part II. Reading Skills: Unit 11. Reading a dictionary and thesaurus; Unit 12. Reading cartoons; Unit 13. Reading poems; Unit 14. Reading descriptions; Unit 15. Reading instructions; Unit 16. Reading information - newspaper editorials, news and sport; Unit 17. Reading magazine articles; Unit 18. Reading advertisements; Unit 19. Reading arguments; Unit 20. Reading essays; Part III. Writing Skills: Unit 21. Writing summaries; Unit 22. Writing poetry and lyrics; Unit 23. Writing descriptions; Unit 24. Writing instructions; Unit 25. Writing news and information; Unit 26. Writing magazine articles; Unit 27. Writing advertisements; Unit 28. Writing persuasively - letters to the editor; Unit 29. Writing arguments; Unit 30. Writing essays.