Through wonderful readings and carefully designed activities, this best-selling series helps students develop reading skills and systematically increase their active vocabulary. Learners develop useful and relevant vocabulary while exploring and expanding critical thinking skills.
The Grammar and Language Workbook offers sequential language instruction along with extensive drill and practice in grammar, usage, and mechanics. This important tool includes a handbook as well as vocabulary, spelling, and composition lessons. This is a workbook for practicing grammar, usage, mechanics, vocabulary, and spelling as well as composition. The explanations and exercises are adapted for grade 8 in US high schools, but can also very well be used for ESL teaching and reviewing (at the appropriate stage).
The Grammar and Language Workbook offers sequential language instruction along with extensive drill and practice in grammar, usage, and mechanics. This important tool includes a handbook as well as vocabulary, spelling, and composition lessons. This is a workbook for practicing grammar, usage, mechanics, vocabulary, and spelling as well as composition. The explanations and exercises are adapted for grade 6 in US high schools, but can also very well be used for ESL teaching and reviewing (at the appropriate stage).
In 36 weeks of systematic instruction, your fifth-graders will learn 111 key academic vocabulary words that they are likely to encounter in multiple subject areas and in assessment instruments.
Vocabulary and Writing in a First and Second Language is based on a large-scale empirical study. The innovative feature of the research was that the same students were asked to do the same tasks in both languages while reporting their thinking as they went along. Furthermore, they had to undertake the same tasks even though they were of very different experience, ranging from young children at school to university students. Three areas of learners' competencies and skills were explored: vocabulary knowledge, word guessing strategies and writing. The authors further explore the relationship between the skills and describe the level of development for individual learners within the three areas
