This ELD resource features a balance of systemic English language instruction with strong emphasis on vocabulary development and a focus on language arts standards. The Interactive Reader has three types of selections: literature, informational texts, and documents that students may encounter in various activities. All selections include the same basic preparation, support, and review materials. Vocabulary previews, skill descriptions, graphic organizers, review questions, and other tools help understand and enjoy the selections. Moreover, tips and questions in the side margins ensure that students can apply and practice the skills they are learning as they read.
Creative Questions: Lively Uses of the Interrogative
This resource book deals with one of the major barriers to fluency and accuracy in English - question forms. It integrates question practice into all areas of language teaching - grammar, vocabulary, the four skills, register, cross-cultural training, and others - empowering students to ask questions accurately and appropriately, and enabling them to become active learners. There are over 70 activities, from five-minute warm ups to full lessons, for students from beginning to advanced levels.
American Biographies are 74 biographical sketches that provide insight into the contributions to America made by people from every era. These sketches are representative of the great diversity of Americans in all walks of life: government, business, and labor leaders; religious, military, and minority leaders; sports, entertainment, and media figures. Each biography includes two types of questions designed to provide students with a basic review of the biography and a critical thinking challenge. Answers to these questions are provided in the back of this booklet.
V. I. Warshawski, private investigator, Chicago, USA. People imagine private detectives to be tired-looking men in raincoats, but Vic is female. She's tough, beautiful, carries a gun - and goes on asking questions until she gets answers. When her cousin Boom Boom dies in an accident, Vic is naturally upset. She wants to know how and why the accident happened, and she isn't satisfied by the answers she gets. So she goes on asking questions . . . and more people start to die.
Ask and You Will Succeed: 1001 Extraordinary Questions to Create Life-Changing Results
What can you do to create unlimited wealth? Ask and You Will Succeed is a breath of fresh air in a marketplace crowded with advice on what to believe and how to live. Filled with powerful questions that invite you to listen to your inner voice and tap into the strength you need to create your ideal life, this audiobook makes you the final authority in your own life - not outside forces that you can't control. Packed with thought-provoking questions related to the creative laws of success, Ask and You Will Succeed shatters the myth that your success depends on the advice, hard work, or ambition of others.
