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 identified 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 students' language proficiency; All new content and practice activities for every unit, approximately 20 hours of practice per strand, with Q Online Practice.