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LANGUAGE! Focus on English Learning Overview
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How is daily instruction supported?
The lesson pages
in the LANGUAGE!
Focus on English
Learning Teacher
Editions bring
the objectives,
content, activities,
and instructional
directions together
to guide and
support teachers.
Develops key
Academic
and Base Vocabulary
concepts necessary for
proficiency in the Listening and
Reading Comprehension and
Speaking and Writing steps.
Each lesson begins
with a clear
Concept
Introduction
aimed
at reaching students at
all proficiency levels.
One
Speaking
and Listening
to the English
Language
lesson
precedes
each core
lesson.
Active Engagement
elicits student participation
while fostering deep-level
concept understanding with
the aid of teacher guidance
and modeling, use of visuals,
and repeated oral practice.
Peer Interaction
--
Students work in small
groups to construct meaning
through oral communication.