This is a valuable resource for Earth-caring adults who want to share their experience of caring for the Earth with the children in their lives.

• Inspires teenagers with fresh, exciting content, culture pages, project work and songs.
• Develops students’ vocabulary with a controlled syllabus, Memory Tips and the unique Memory Gym.
• Helps students to organise their learning and check their progress with the Wordstore vocabulary notebook.
• Builds students’ confidence with grammar practice in real-life contexts, check pages, regular communication and skills practice.
• Shows learners how to write with Writing Tips and a step-by-step guide in the Writing Gym
• Responds to all students’ needs through cross-curricular content and mixed-level solutions.

Teaching Reading to Adult English Language Learners: A Reading Instruction Staff Development Program was developed with a federal English Literacy and Civics Education grant from the Office of Adult Education and Literacy of the Virginia Department of Education. The purpose of this project was to develop and field-test a series of staff development workshops to support instructors of adult English language learners in constructing an understanding of the foundations of reading in a second language and appropriate reading instruction for adult second language learners. Such an understanding is necessary to implement adult ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) content standards and to prepare learners for reading assessments. A companion project for reading instructors of adult native English speakers, Introduction to Research-Based Adult Reading Instruction, was completed in 2004.

Listening to the voices of learners as they write an essay or try to cope with unfamiliar words in a text is a luxury often reserved for researchers. This book with its data on several aspects of learner skills and vocabulary knowledge and with data from the same individuals performing similar tasks in their first and their foreign language invites readers with an interest in foreign language acquisition to follow the same learners in their efforts to cope in both languages.