Children's ESL Curriculum: Learning English with Laughter

STUDENT BOOK 3B Children's Curriculum, Black and White Second Edition, has an interest level suitable for ESL Students 12 years and under. This is the sixth set in a series of 10 sets, each comprising three books: Student Book, Practice Book and a Teacher's Guide with a Final Test. It reviews the contents of all the previous textbooks of this series. Book 3B, Adventures in Canada, introduces consonant blends and the writing of simple sentence answers. The students participate in many...
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STUDENT BOOK 3B Children's Curriculum, Black and White Second Edition, has an interest level suitable for ESL Students 12 years and under. This is the sixth set in a series of 10 sets, each comprising three books: Student Book, Practice Book and a Teacher's Guide with a Final Test. It reviews the contents of all the previous textbooks of this series. Book 3B, Adventures in Canada, introduces consonant blends and the writing of simple sentence answers. The students participate in many role-plays as the story of the friendly aliens from Saturn travel with the storybook characters, Ruth and Spencer on a rocket trip to Canada. This program stresses oral communication. It includes listening, speaking, printing, reading orally and following oral directions.Student Book 3B has 14 lessons and 54 pages. To provide for easy presentation, the teacher's instructions are written in small boxes each page. Students listen, speak, read, write, draw, follow coloring directions and complete crossword puzzles.TYPES OF EXERCISES AND ACTIVITIES:- Some of these pages require the students to read and follow several different instructions. This ensures that they understand what they read.- Copying sentence answers from a list: This activity provides visual and kinesthetic modes of learning, also auditory learning when they are working with a partner or in a group. The children are learning through repeatedly reading, seeing, hearing and printing the correct grammar and sentence structure.- Answering questions in sentences: First the children need to read and understand the question, then read and choose the correct sentence answer. Not all answers in the list are correct.- Draw pictures to illustrate specific instructions or ideas: This activity reinforces the students' understanding of the phrases, sentences or paragraphs.- Role-plays- Rhyming words- Listening and printing consonant blends to complete the words in sentences.- Listening to and reading paragraphs- Crossword puzzles- Following directions for coloring pictures- Singing or saying verses with rhyming words- Introduction and pictures of many wild animals and birds- Matching nouns to pictures