20 Engaging, Read-Aloud Plays to Kick Off and Enrich the Key Social Studies,
Science, and Language Arts Topics You Teach—and Build Reading Fluency
20 Terrific Mini-Plays that Build Reading Skills: 20 Engaging, Read-Aloud Plays to Kick Off and Enrich the Key Social Studies, Science, and Language Arts Topics You Teach—and Build Reading Fluency.
After reading a nursery rhyme several times, give children a copy of the nursery rhyme reproducible to use for independent reading, for reading in pairs or groups, for classroom activities, and for sharing with family members. These pages are a great way to encourage repeated readings, develop fluency, and to do specific skill work.
This book takes a new and holistic approach to fluency in English speech and differentiates between productive, perceptive, and nonverbal fluency. The in-depth corpus-based description of productive fluency points out major differences of how fluency is established in native and nonnative speech. It also reveals areas in which even highly advanced learners of English still deviate strongly from the native target norm and in which they have already approximated to it.
The six-level Top Notch program makes English unforgettable through multiple exposures to language, numerous opportunities to practice it, and systematic and intensive recycling. Goals- and achievement-based lessons with can-do statements enable students to confirm their progress.
Top Notch prepares students to communicate in English with a diverse array of speakers around the world who have a wide range of native and non-native accents. An emphasis on cultural fluency enables students to navigate the social, travel, and business situations that they will encounter in their lives.
Exploring fluency from multiple vantage points that together constitute a cognitive science perspective, this book examines research in second language acquisition and bilingualism that points to promising avenues for understanding and promoting second language fluency. Cognitive Bases of Second Language Fluency covers essential topics such as units of analysis for measuring fluency, the relation of second language fluency to general cognitive fluidity, social and motivational contributors to fluency, and neural correlates of fluency.
