Longman ESL Literacy Student Book, 3rd Edition

Features:

• Scope and Sequence that presents vocabulary, competencies, literacy skills, phonics, and grammar at a glance.
• Easy-to-use classroom procedures for key exercises.
• Illustrations that provide a clear context for model conversations.
• Correlations to CASAS Competencies, LAUSD Course Outline, and Florida Standardized Syllabi.
• Icons to facilitate use of the Audio CD and flash cards.

Components:

Teacher’s Resource Book with Audio CD

• End-of-unit tests.
• Step-by-step teaching notes.
• Audio CD that provides authentic conversation models and opportunities for listening and speaking practice.
• More than 200 reproducible flash cards.

Transparencies

• More than 150 transparencies for use with vocabulary, conversation, TPR and phonics pages, review activities, and tests.

Yvonne Wong Nishio has served the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) as a teacher, curriculum coordinator, and adult school counselor over the past 37 years. She has the accumulated experience of teaching all five ESL levels at Evans Community Adult School and was designated a resource/demonstration teacher for the Division of Adult and Career Education (DACE) of LAUSD.

Her pioneering work in ESL literacy includes contributions to the ESL Language Model Standards for Adult Education Programs established by the California Department of Education. Her leadership in the field resulted in the writing of the ESL Beginning Literacy Course Outline for LAUSD.

In addition to writing, Ms. Nishio shares her expertise in the field of ESL literacy by training tutors at public libraries in the Los Angeles area.