Using a combination of fantasy and factual content, Tracks addresses the stage pupils go through as they learn a new language. These original tales are full of adventures that will keep young learners motivated through each and every class. Lessons include cross-curricular content, personalisation activities and project work, giving pupils the chance to share their own experiences in the classroom as well as countless oppurtunities for recycling and assessment.
Guided Instruction: How to Develop Confident and Successful Learners, 3rd Edition
Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey say that helping students develop immediate and lifelong learning skills is best achieved through guided instruction, which they define as saying or doing the just-right thing to get the learner to do cognitive work" in other words, gradually and successfully transferring knowledge and the responsibility for learning to students through scaffolds for learning.
Living in a run-down bed-and-breakfast hotel filled with other homeless families, ten-year-old Elsa wisecracks her way through her problems, and dreams of being a big star.
Frank, Joe, and their friends head to Philadelphia to catch a performance of Aerocirque, an amazing circus act with a twist -- the acrobats swing and flip from helicopters high in the air But all is not well in the City of Brotherly Love. The other show in town is a series of robberies, and no one knows how they're being pulled off. Frank and Joe are soon jumping through hoops to find the clues they need to catch the culprits. But will they be too late? It looks like this mystery may come right down to the wire.
