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Description of  The English Workbook B + Teacher's Guide

The English Workbook: Developing Literacy Thorough treatment of all these aspects of English Literacy in a seven-book series: - Oral language - Reading Comprehension - Spelling - Vocabulary - Grammar - Writing Each book focuses on 5 main writing genres: Procedure Recount Exposition (Persuasive) Narratives Reports. There are 10 units of work in each book and each unit deals with 11 main elements: - Reading passages written in one of the five writing genre - Speaking and listening activities based on the genre. Focusing on activities for the whole class and activities for working in pairs. - Analysis of the structure of the writing genre. - Reading activities focus on developing comprehension at 3 different levels: reading for information, reading for understanding and application of understanding. - Vocabulary activities focus on extending word meaning, word building and activities include dictionary work, antonyms/synonyms, alphabetical order, anagrams, word searches, crosswords and word worms. - Grammar activities which focus on parts of speech or punctuation. - Spelling pages focus on specific spelling rules e.g. plurals. - Writing Framework/Template to guide the children in perfecting the specific genre. This allows the children to be creative and imaginative while still providing the children with a structure needed to enable them write in a genre. - Writing activities. - Editing and Proofreading activities. - Two page assessment of the entire unit. Teachers resource book available for each level.