An English Core Skills booklet designed for students in Year 8-10 but useful for other year groups also. Complete with explanations, examples and practice activities. The four key areas:

1. Reading & analysis - PEEL, language techniques, structure, inference and zooming in on words.
2. Creative writing - ‘show dont tell’, ‘camera’ structure, ambitious vocabulary and sentence variety.
3. Grammar & Vocabulary - clauses, fronted adverbials, punctuation and apostrophes.
4. Non-fiction & persuasive writing - purpose & audience, rhetorical devices and structuring an argument.

• Answers and model examples for every practice activity.

This could be a very useful Summer Holiday booklet to prepare students for September or a helpful companion in class or for homework.