BRIGHT IDEAS – A Teacher’s Resource Manual
BRIGHT IDEAS contains itself a collection of the twenty-six practical teaching strategies aimed at trying out new ideas and sharing experiences in teaching and covering all the activities within an English classroom: reading, writing and speaking. Each activity is carefully planned and basically contains some parts: Rationale, Preparation, Tasks or Directions, Results or Discussion.
She was brave. She was fearless. She was feathered. She was a chicken. A not-so-chicken chicken. Her name? Louise! Louise longed for adventure. So she left her home and ventured out into the wide world. The pleasures and perils our heroine met proved plentiful: marauding pirates on the majestic seas, a ferocious lion under the bright lights of the big top, a mysterious stranger in an exotic and bustling bazaar.
Lola loves Tuesdays because that is the day she and her mother go to the library. Everything about the trip is an exciting adventure - from packing her backpack with books and her all-important library card, to storytimes and singing, to choosing new books and the walk home, when they always stop for a special treat. But the best time of all is when Mommy reads her a story at bedtime. Simple text and large, bright acrylic illustrations of this engaging African-American child makes this selection just right for sharing.