Short Reading Passages with Graphic Organizers to Model and Teach Key Comprehension Skills (Grades 2-3)
Forty high-interest passages are paired with graphic organizers to help all kids easily learn how to find the main idea, understand cause and effect, compare and contrast, sequence events, and more. Following your lead, students can draw, move, highlight, and underline key text. A surefire way to engage even the most reluctant learners and build the reading comprehension skills all students need to succeed.
The standards-based critical thinking activities of Reading Detective develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension. The activities are especially effective at helping students understand more challenging reading concepts such as drawing inferences, making conclusions, determining cause-and-effect, and using context clues to define vocabulary.
An innovative corpus-based grammar text, Real Grammar uses the latest corpus research to show how 50 grammatical structures and expressions are used in speech and writing. This focus on authentic usage motivates students to move past traditional grammar texts and use English more like native speakers. Real Grammar is an essential tool for students to study English as it is used in the real world of conversation, fiction, newspaper, and academic writing. Fifty independent units provide total flexibility, allowing the text to fit any curriculum Rich activities, varying from exercises to discovery and analysis, help learners understand and use the target grammar.
The present training manual in practical grammar of the English language is intended for the second-year day-time and extra-mural students of the English department. It summarises and systematises the material on articles available predominantly in normative grammars, It is designed to help the students to acquire theoretical and practical knowledge of the grammar of the English language within the limits envisaged by the syllabus on the topic "The Article in the English Language". The method guide will prepare the students for the study of the material in question in the theoretical course to be taken up in the third year.
Speaking of Values provides a lively forum for students to compare their ideas and values with classmates in a comfortable environment that encourages the development of both language and critical thinking skills. Systematically incorporating language-focused exercises, the text helps students develop fluency by focusing on phrases in context, then practicing them in meaningful and enjoyable ways. Topics focus on questions of everyday importance and span such areas as honesty, sports, good neighbors, and borrowing or lending money.
