Tania Saiz
Marketing Manager
Exercises to Get Your Students Familiar with Dictionaries
A dictionary can be an invaluable tool for students in their learning
process. Every student should have a dictionary at their desk, not just at the front of the classroom. …
Oliva Fernandez, Marketing Director, Adult and Higher Education
Selecting Texts for the Adult ESL Classroom
(This article is excerpted and adapted from a monograph by MaryAnn Florez, series consultant for Pearson’s Center Stage. Florez is currently director for the Adult Education Professional Development Center for DC LEARNS, a coalition of adult education and literacy providers in the District of Columbia. … )
Effective Multilevel Instruction with Side by Side Plus
Side by Side Plus is the number one selling ESL series in the world.
Long-established as leaders in ESL methodology, authors Steven J.
Molinsky and Bill Bliss have tackled the challenges of multilevel
instruction and made it easier than ever for every student in a
classroom to be successful, no matter what their level of proficiency.
Three Levels of Student Ability
Teachers will find their lesson planning time reduced substantially
when they use the Side by Side Plus Teacher’s
Guide as their one-stop resource for effective multilevel
instruction. Easy-to-use strategies help teachers preview and pre-drill lesson objectives, and hundreds of dynamic expansion activities offer reinforcement and enrichment for students at three different ability levels:
“Getting Ready” Sections
Getting Ready
sections are ideal lesson planning tools. They provide a careful
sequence of instructional steps teachers can use during the warm-up, preview, and initial presentation stages of a lesson – these are especially helpful for below-level students who need careful preparation for a lesson’s new vocabulary, grammar, topics,
functions or language skills.
The Getting Ready
section is an “on-ramp” that allows students to get up to speed with lesson content so that they comprehend the lesson and master its learning objectives.
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Who’s
Afraid of the AWL?
The Academic Word List has gotten a lot of attention over the last few
years, but what is it really all about? Making sense of the AWL and
implementing it in your teaching is straightforward. But it only works
if you have the right information. …
