Welcome to Skillful!
Each Skillful unit has ten pages and is divided into two main sections: reading skills and writing skills. Reading The reading skills section always comes first and starts with a Discussion point to lead you in to the unit topic. There are then two reading texts for you to practice your reading skills on. There are activities to practice your global reading skills and your close reading skills, as well as opportunities to critically examine the ideas in the texts. Key academic vocabulary from the text is presented on the page so you can see essential terms to learn Vocabulary skills also give you the chance to develop the ways in which you learn and remember vocabulary from the reading texts.