Essential Skills (Series)

Essential for Key Stage 3 classrooms

Every classroom should have Essential Skills! Dip into the packs for a simple solution to the new Key Stage 3 English curriculum.

• The perfect preparation for the new GCSEs starting in 2010
• Covers the new programme of study and existing Key Stage 3 English Assessment Focuses quickly and easily.
• Separate packs for Speaking and Listening (which could be used with the new Spoken Language GCSE unit), Reading, and Writing offer you a totally flexible approach.
• Fits in with your way of teaching, existing resources and schemes of work.
• Each pack includes a customizable OxBox CD-ROM.
• Network and VLE versions both included in the one-off fee.

Download a free unit from the Reading Pack

Download sample pages from Speaking and Listening

Download sample pages from Writing

Download a contents list

Read a review from Secondary English magazine.

Try a demo of the Essential Skills OxBox

Watch the Essential Skills Demo

"'We've bought Essential Skills because it looks clear and straightforward. It is also well supported with the CD material at a time when we are hoping to explore the use of VLE more significantly. One thing very strongly in its favour is that it is not too busy on the page. A lot of the new text books seem to be so very bright and crowded that I am worried whether some students will be able to access the written material with ease'" - Ms Gloria Theobald, Head of English, Slough Grammar School

"A creative, jam-packed resource...useful and lively stuff. Its emphasis on the assessment focuses and on specific skills/key processes, and its well thought out activities, will really support departments as they find their way through the revised PoS." - Helen Lapping, Secondary English Consultant for Blackpool