Essential English Skills Year 10 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 the 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 for all students * A mid-level exercise page for most students * A high-level exercise page for the most able students Each exercise 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 .

Rosemary O'Shea has decades of teaching experience in Victorian schools. She has taught English at all levels and has been for many years English Co-ordinator of a large private school. She is also the author of the textbook Analysis and Argument.

This book has the following chapters: Part I. Language Skills: Unit 1. Fixing spelling problems - the 'horror' words; Unit 2. Fixing spelling problems - foreign words; Unit 3. Fixing spelling problems - Latin and Greek roots; Unit 4. Punctuation revision; Unit 5. Grammar revision; Unit 6. Fixing syntax problems; Unit 7. Formal and informal English - fixing stylistic problems; Unit 8. Enrich your vocabulary - literary and medical words; Unit 9. Enrich your vocabulary - homophones, synonyms and antonyms; Unit 10. Enrich your vocabulary - legal and political words; Part II. Reading Skills: Unit 11. Reading short stories; Unit 12. Reading plays; Unit 13. Reading films; Unit 14. Reading graphic narratives; Unit 15. Reading novels; Unit 16. Reading newspapers - factual writing; Unit 17. Reading newspapers - opinionative writing; Unit 18. Reading personal writing; Unit 19. Reading reflective writing; Unit 20. Reading argumentative writing; Part III. Writing Skills: Unit 21. Writing short stories; Unit 22. Writing play scripts; Unit 23. Writing text responses; Unit 24. Writing reviews; Unit 25. Writing resumes; Unit 26. Writing reports; Unit 27. Writing arguments; Unit 28. Writing speeches; Unit 29. Writing personal and descriptive pieces; Unit 30. Writing creative responses.