The tropical rain forest is one of the most complex ecosystems on earth and needs to be protected. This is the flipbook version of the True Book with page-turning and read-along features, chapter tabs, and vocabulary terms indentified and defined. The 'book' has been transformed into a versatile digital resource enabling the student to exercise the non-linear reading and viewing behaviors that are known to take place with digital content. It also allows students to graduate from 'learning to read' to 'reading to learn' and master content area knowledge in science and social studies. Reading Level: Grades 3 - 5
New Perspectives on Individual Differences in Language Learning and Teaching
The volume constitutes an attempt to capture the intricate relationship between individual learner differences and other variables which are of interest to theorists, researchers and practitioners representing such diverse branches of applied linguistics as psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics or language teaching methodology.
This resource package is designed and developed in support of the English Language Curriculum and Assessment Guide (Secondary 4 – 6) (2007) and the Suggested Schemes of Work for the Elective Part of the Three-year Senior Secondary English Language Curriculum (Secondary 4 – 6) (2007). It provides learning resources and teaching ideas for the development and implementation of the elective module “Learning English through Drama”.
Teachers are very good at providing excellent opportunities for children’s learning to progress. Often, without fully understanding the reasons why, teachers encourage learning in their charges which works very well, and is a very good approach at a particular time with a particular child or group of children. With greater insight into what is currently known about the processes of learning and about individual learning preferences, teachers are able to provide even better learning situations which are even more likely to lead to effective learning.
Why do poor and minority students under-perform in school? Do computer games help or hinder learning? What can new research in psychology teach our educational policy-makers? In this major new book, Gee tackles the 'big ideas' about language, literacy and learning, putting forward an integrated theory that crosses disciplinary boundaries, and applying it to some of the very real problems that face educationalists today. Situated Language and Learning looks at the specialist academic varieties of language that are used in disciplines such as mathematics and the sciences.
