Urban Teaching: The Essentials, Revised Edition
This bestselling guide to urban teaching has been updated and revised
to reflect today's challenges, including testing pressures, inclusive
classrooms, and helping second language learners. Lois Weiner, a highly
regarded teacher with years of experience supervising new teachers in
urban and suburban schools, provides invaluable "insider"
recommendations for thriving in culturally diverse classrooms and
coping with school realities ranging from overcrowded classes and a
lack of appropriate materials to frustrating bureaucracy and school
violence. This guide is an invaluable resource for teacher educators
and essential reading for teachers at all grade levels.
Welcome1, 2 and 3 are designed for children learning English at primary level. The moderate grading of the syllabus enables pupils to use English effectively while developing all four language skills.
Writing Warm Ups: 70 Activities for Prewriting
Warm-up students' writing muscles (and skills!) with this creative
teacher resource of activities and photocopiable exercise sheets!
Designed to sensitize English learners to the process of writing before
their first compositions go down on paper, these 70 activities
introduce such writing concepts as audience, purpose, point of view,
focus, classification, sequence, cause and effect, and comparison and
contrast. Every activity has easy-to-follow teacher notes and minimal
preparation for the teacher. An answer key is included. This is truly a
fun "workout room" for getting the writing skills of English learners
"in shape!"
Welcome 1, 2 and 3 are designed for children learning English at primary level. The moderate grading of the syllabus enables pupils to use English effectively while developing all four language skills.
Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher is a huge resource for teachers of English. The database contains more than 34,000 sentences illustrating over 2,500 headwords, with at least 10 sentences for each word. Using the database, you can quickly and easily create practice exercises or find example sentences for the vocabulary your students are working on right now.
Included among the headword is the vocabulary contained in the Academic Word List, as developed at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington.
From Gerry's Vocabulary Database Help File. c
opyright Gerry Luton and Martin Holmes, Creative Technology 2002.