California Science Leveled Readers can be used to complement core programs or as the main materials in daily instruction. These readers help teachers to meet all learning needs by building fluency and independence for every student, extending key themes and concepts, providing practice and the application of reading skills and strategies, and supporting small-group instruction. Leveled below, on, and above level, these nonfiction books help all learners build fluency, independence, and motivation for lifelong reading success.
Read Alouds help to build children’s listening comprehension. This anthology offers selections from a variety of genres, including biography, fiction, folktales, nonfiction, songs, and poetry, to share with children. Instruction is provided with each selection to develop specific comprehension strategies.
The Architecture of Learning: Designing Instruction for the Learning Brain
Become an Architect of Learning! (blueprints included). The brain constructs new learning, sorting and labeling new data, comparing it with prior experience, and using resulting understandings to interact with the environment.
Corrective Feedback in Task-based Grammar Instruction: A Case of Recast vs. Metalinguistic Feedback
This study done by Saeed Rezaei at Allameh Tabataba'i University in Tehran focuses on the significance of two types of corrective feedback, namely recast and metalinguistic feedback, in task-based grammar instruction. The researcher provides interested readers with a thorough review of literature on corrective feedback, task-based language teaching, and grammar instruction. The theoretical and practical implications resulting from the outcome of this study are revealing for both theory seekers and language teaching practitioners.
Q: Skills for Success is a six-level series with two strands, Reading and Writing and Listening and Speaking. The series provides students with: Clearly identified learning outcomes that focus students on the goal of instruction Thought-provoking unit questions that provide a critical thinking framework for each unit Explicit skills instruction that builds students language profciency All new content and practice activities for every unit, approximately 20 hours of practice per strand, with Q Online Practice.
