In this practical guide to teaching beginning language learners of all ages, Calhoun encourages us to begin where the learners begin--with their developed listening and speaking vocabularies and other accumulated knowledge about the world. Engage students in shaking words out of a picture--words from their speaking vocabularies--to begin the process of building their reading and writing skills.

How can teachers make sure that all students gain the reading skills they need to be successful in school and in life? In this book, Karen Tankersley describes the six foundational "threads" that students need to study in order to become effective readers: phonemic awareness, phonics and decoding, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and higher-order processing.

Building Student Literacy Through Sustained Silent Reading offers a practical solution for teachers who want to improve studentsв€™ reading ability: Let students choose what they read and give them the time to read it.

Understanding metaphor raises key questions about the relationship between language and meaning, and between language and mind. This book explores how this understanding can impact upon the theory and practice of language teaching. After summarizing the cognitive basis of metaphor and other figures of speech, it looks at how this knowledge can inform classroom practice.

Mastery of basic language skills is the overarching goal of the English in Context series. To this end, each of the six worktexts has been carefully designed to “begin at the beginning” and gradually proceed along the skills continuum. The low reading level (approximately 4.0) is consistent throughout the program.