Teaching Students to Drive Their Brains: Metacognitive Strategies, Activities, and Lesson Ideas
Research suggests that metacognition is key to higher student achievement, but studies of classroom practice indicate that few students are taught to use metacognition and the supporting cognitive strategies that make learning easier. You can teach metacognition to your students, so why wouldn't you? This book shows you how.
Discover the new edition of the award-winning course for teaching English as it is spoken. Using content from the BBC, Speakout 2nd Edition builds the skills and knowledge students need to communicate confidently.
Speakout is the English language course that includes video content from the BBC to engage students and make teaching easier.
It follows a balanced approach to topics, language development and skills work. Speaking activities are prominent, but not at the expense of the other core skills of reading, writing and listening, which are developed systematically throughout.
The research-based Focus on Vocabulary series breaks down vocabulary acquisition tasks into achievable, short-term language acquisition goals. Excerpts from popular material give students hands-on preparation for understanding vocabulary as it is found social, academic, and workplace settings.
Focus on Vocabulary 2: Mastering the Academic Word List uses thorough recycling of academic words and well-crafted exercises to introduce high-intermediate and advanced students to the vocabulary they need for academic and testtaking success.
Focus on Vocabulary 1 2(student books) The research-based Focus on Vocabulary series breaks down vocabulary acquisition tasks into achievable, short-term language acquisition goals. Excerpts from popular material give students hands-on preparation for understanding vocabulary as it is found social, academic, and workplace settings.
Focus on Vocabulary 1: Bridging Vocabulary fills the gap between high-frequency and lower-frequency vocabulary — teaching mid-frequency vocabulary and preparing intermediate to high-intermediate students for the kinds of words found in novels, newspapers, films, and social and workplace settings.
Subject Link is a nine-level curriculum integration reading program for high-beginner to high-intermediate students. The series’ theme-based curriculum helps students to improve their language abilities and also acquire new knowledge from the interesting content presented in each of the passages. With multiple lessons for each theme, Subject Link allows students to develop a greater understanding of the curriculum and broaden the context of their learning beyond single subject areas.
