New Windmills - Pearson

Language Arts Ages 11-14 UK Years 7-9 US Grades 6-8
Text: Building Skills in English
Developing essential language skills
Text: Building Skills in English has been designed to capture the imagination of all students at
every opportunity. By focusing on building up key language skills and finding ways to engage and
motivate students, Text offers you a wide range of materials and assessment tasks giving you the
tools to assess and measure progression.
Key features include:
‘Sharpen your skills’ activities and word and sentence level animations to help build and embed
functional skills.
Two Assessment Tasks in each unit focus clearly on either Reading and Writing or Speaking
and Listening to help you assess students’ progress and set targets.
Extensive teaching resources including an editable CD-ROM containing lesson plans, student
sheets and other support material, all designed to save you valuable planning time.
LiveText CD-ROM – the complete Student Book in electronic format packed with interactive
activities, audio clips and video recordings to bring your lessons to life!
Student Book
Clear objectives at the start of each unit
show students what they will be learning.
What’s online?
Sample pages from Text Student Book 2
Components at a glance
Assess your progress features
show students how to improve.
The following components are available at three
levels (Levels 3-5, Levels 4-6 and Levels 6+):
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