A lower ability companion to the middle/higher ability NTFE core course at three Key Stage 3 Levels (Year 7, 8, 9). Twin-track (Fiction / Non-Fiction) student books with a photocopiable resource book and teacher's guide.

Lower ability companion to the middle/higher ability NTFE core course at three Key Stage 3 Levels (Year 7, 8, 9). Twin-track (Fiction / Non-Fiction) student books with a photocopiable resource book and teacher's guide.

Skills in Grammar and Style extends the range of the Framework English series with a scheme specifically aimed at promoting confident usage of grammar and style conventions. Each Pupil Book provides grammar exercises and activities aimed at developing skills in writing.

Covering all the National Curriculum Framework objectives using a clearly structured and rigorous approach, Nelson Thornes Framework English offers an attractive and dynamic route through the demands of the Framework for Teaching English, Years 7-9, laying particular emphasis on the basic skills of English in order to raise standards in writing. Using a twin-track approach with a student text covering fiction and non-fiction, each book provides 18 units of themed stimulus texts plus differentiated activites at word, sentence and text levels to meet the requirements of the Framework. Encompassing a wide range of genres, styles and conventions, the activities allow for the incorporation of direct whole class teaching, group work and individual work placing emphasis on the development of extended writing.

Covering all the Framework objectives using a clearly structured and rigorous approach, Nelson Thornes Framework English offers an attractive and dynamic route through the demands of the Framework for Teaching English Years 7-9, laying particular emphasis on the basic skills of English in order to raise standards in writing.

A comprehensive Key Stage 3 English scheme that reflects National Literacy Strategy priorities by spanning both non-fiction and fiction text-types in twin student books. Nelson Thornes Framework English equips your department with complete reassurance.

Each double page spread in this title starts with explanatory text to help students complete the tasks which follow. There are three levels of activities: Focus tasks for the lower attainers, Investigation tasks to further challenge students, and Extension tasks for the more able students. Assessment can be monitored at regular intervals in check-up units in the Students' Book and in Assessment Copymasters in the Resource Book. "Nelson Thornes Framework English Skills in Grammar and Style" also comprises one Resource Book containing differentiated Copymasters for further practice in both skills. Hint boxes on the Copymasters help students understand the tasks. Teachers are supported through a Teacher's Guides. Each Students' Book double spread is reproduced at the start of the notes for each unit for easy reference. The Teacher's Guide also contains solutions to the Copymaster questions and a glossary of grammatical terms at the beginning of the book for easy reference.

Lower ability companion to the middle/higher ability NTFE core course at three Key Stage 3 Levels (Year 7, 8, 9). Twin-track (Fiction / Non-Fiction) student books with a photocopiable resource book and teacher's guide.

Skills in Grammar and Style extends the range of the Nelson Thornes Framework English series with a scheme specifically aimed at promoting confident usage of grammar and style conventions. Each Pupil Book provides grammar exercises and activities aimed at developing skills in writing, following the priorities of the KS3 Framework.

Access Skills in Fiction and Non-Fiction offers the rigour and support necessary to raise the attainment of pupils struggling at Level 4, or at Level 3. It is also suitable for Level C/D in Scotland. It features twin Students Books offering students all the support necessary to access top quality fiction and non-fiction texts and transform their own writing. It offers clear and predictable structure to improve students' levels of achievement following Word, Sentence and Text Level priorities within the Framework for Teaching English. Comprehension exercises alongside the extracts ensure that students have understood the text before progressing further. Highly appealing illustrations not only provide visual interest, but also provide specific guidance with the writing assignment. It can be used flexibly either with lower ability groups exclusively, or in mixed ability classes alongside the mid to higher ability series. Stimulus extracts follow the same unit themes as the higher ability extracts but are abridged, shortened or completely new. It employs a 'spiral' curriculum in which skills are revisited and confidence is built.