Synopses & Reviews
Q: Skills for Success is a six-level series with two strands,
Reading and Writing and
Listening and Speaking.
Q: Skills for Success uses an essential question in every unit to connect critical thinking, language skills and learning outcomes. The series provides students with the language skills needed to achieve academic success.
Q is a result of an extensive development process involving thousands of teachers and hundreds of students around the word. Their views and opinions helped shape the content of the series. Q is grounded in teaching theory as well as real-world classroom practice, making it the most learner-centered series available.
· Clearly identified learning outcomes focus students on the goal of instruction.
· Thought-provoking unit questions provide a critical thinking framework for each unit.
· Explicit skills instruction builds language proficiency.
· Q Online Practice provides new content and practice activities for every unit.
Synopsis
Q: Skills for Success is a six-level series with two strands, Reading and Writing and Listening and Speaking. The series provides students with:Clearly identifed learning outcomes that focus students on the goal of instruction
Thought-provoking unit questions that provide a critical thinking framework for each unit
Explicit skills instruction that builds student's language profciency
All new content and practice activities for every unit, approximately 20 hours of practice per strand, with Q Online Practice.
About the Author
Colin S. Ward has an MA in TESOL from the University of London. His interests include the teaching of second-language writing and the role of technology in language learning. Colin is a US-UK Fulbright scholar and an author of several ESL textbooks.
Margot F. Gramer holds an MA in TESOL from Teachers College, Columbia University. She has been involved in the field of ESL as a teacher, teacher-trainer, administrator, writer and editor. She has taught ESL for many years at both the college level and in business settings. She is the author or co-author of many ESL texts. She is currently an Instructor at the Language Immersion Program at Nassau Community College (LINCC) in Garden City, New York.