ESSENTIAL English offers you a premium course in English. The material has been developed to meet the full requirements of the Common Core curriculum for JHS, as developed by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), carefully addressing all strands, sub-strands, content standards, indicators, and core competencies. ESSENTIAL English encourages learners to be responsible and creative citizens who are self-confident, digitally literate, and excellent communicators. Throughout the course, attitudes, values, and skills as prescribed by the curriculum, are addressed. The ESSENTIAL English Basic 8 Facilitator’s Guide enables you to teach the new curriculum with confidence and offers: step-by-step teaching guidelines; answers to activities in the Learner’s Book; assessment rubrics to assess learners’ listening, speaking and writing tasks; memos to assess learners’ comprehension and grammar tasks; activities that can be used for Diagnostic assessment; suggestions for how to include local materials and ICT in the learning process; a Curriculum coverage table indicating how the standards and core competencies are covered in the course; remedial and extension activities to support multi-ability learning. Learning is ESSENTIAL!