Wider World is a new, 5-level course which provides secondary students not just with the ability to communicate well in English and to pass exams with good grades but also with the skills and confidence to participate as educated citizens in the global community of the 21st century – with all its unique challenges and opportunities.
We created this fun and easy-to-follow Orton-Gillingham–based text with the goal of helping your students improve their literacy and learn to enjoy reading and writing. As former classroom teachers, we saw the need for a phonics-based curriculum that met the needs of our students with dyslexia and other learning differences.
Reading and Writing Together: A Critical Component of English for Academic Purposes Teaching and Learning
Reading has traditionally been seen as a skill to be taught separately from writing, as well as something students are somehow expected to already know about when they reach the writing course. Teaching reading in a writing course may seem like an odd idea, if not an entirely unnecessary one. It may also be the case that second language writing teachers feel ill prepared to teach reading, especially in connection with writing. How many teachers have actually been taught to teach the two skills together?
Teach Yourself English Vocabulary should appeal to all learners of English as a foreign/second language who want to increase their vocabulary. Its structured, thematic approach means that it can be used as a reference tool or a systematic way of learning vocabulary.
American Speakout 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