"Literature: The Reader's Choice" is the first research-based high school language arts program to combine outstanding literature with innovative active learning designed to bring students to a new level of REAL Success! An inquiry-based "Big Ideas" approach organizes, motivates, and guides students' learning, while innovative color-coded highlighting pairs text passages with questions to prompt students to read actively. Key reading skills and key literary elements introduced, practiced, and assessed with every selection help students read, analyze, and comprehend a wide variety of texts, including nonfiction. Reading Age: High School students
Well organized and comprehensive, this book provides a full framework for integrating science and literacy. It shows how tapping into children's interest in science can help them develop key literacy skills and strategies as they explore the world around them. Examples of integrated science units include hands-on instructions and reproducible materials for learning activities that can be adapted to different grade levels.
This book puts forward an authenticity-centred approach to the design of materials for language learning. The premise of the approach is that language learning should be based on authentic materials drawn from a variety of genres found in the target language culture, and that the learning tasks involving these materials should be correspondingly authentic, by entailing interactions that are consistent with the original communicative purpose of the authentic text.
New Cutting Edge Starter CD-ROM is an excellent addition to the Cutting Edge Starter package. Each of 12 modules that follow the textbook are subdivided into 4 parts: Language Focus, Vocabulary, Pronunciation, and Real Life Video. Exercises, games, ans puzzles included into this software bring fun and ease to learning and help students obtain basic language skills faster.
By understanding why children struggle with maths, teachers are better equipped to provide effective support and nurture confidence in low-achievers.
Numeracy and Learning Difficulties includes how to tackle common learning difficulties by following different teaching practices and principles, identifying gaps in students' knowledge and developing curricula that bridges these gaps, improves numerical literacy using probem-solving strategies and skills, and a handy checklist of benchmanrks in achievement.
