Discovering Fiction Level 1 Student's Book

Discovering Fiction Level 1 Student's Book
Author: Judith Kay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2012-12-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1107652227

Discovering Fiction features short stories that enhance students' reading skills, language learning, and enjoyment of literature. Discovering Fiction, Second Edition, Student's Book 1 presents stories with universal appeal to engage students and make them think critically. Among the authors included are O. Henry, William Saroyan, Gwendolyn Brooks, Isaac Asimov, and Sandra Cisneros. Extensive pre-reading activities capture students' interest. Post-reading activities check their comprehension, increase their knowledge of grammar and vocabulary, and provide thought-provoking discussion and writing assignments. Literary term explanations and tasks enhance students' appreciation of literature.

Discovering Fiction, An Introduction Teacher's Manual

Discovering Fiction, An Introduction Teacher's Manual
Author: Judith Kay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2008-05-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780521703918

Authentic North American short stories enhance students' reading skills, language learning, and enjoyment of literature. The Teacher's Manual provides tips and strategies on how to teach the different exercise types in a chapter. In addition, the authors provide interpretative commentary on the readings, helping teachers gain a literary appreciation of the text. Finally, a complete answer key is provided, including suggested answers to the critical thinking questions.

Discovering Fiction Level 1 Instructor's Manual

Discovering Fiction Level 1 Instructor's Manual
Author: Judith Kay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2001-04-23
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780521002356

Authentic North American short stories enhance students' reading skills, language learning, and enjoyment of literature. The Instructor's Manual for Discovering Fiction, Student's Book 1, provides further information about the stories, teaching suggestions, and an answer key.

Discovering Fiction Level 2 Student's Book

Discovering Fiction Level 2 Student's Book
Author: Judith Kay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2012-12-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 110762214X

Equips students to read and understand authentic short stories with vocabulary, reading, and critical thinking skills. Classic and contemporary stories give students a thorough background in North American literature. Every chapter gives students practice in guessing meaning from context, which research shows is one of the most important skills for reading unadapted texts. Students also learn to think critically, make inferences, discuss what they read and write responses to the work. --

Discovering Fiction Student's Book 2

Discovering Fiction Student's Book 2
Author: Judith Kay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2001-02-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780521003513

Discovering Fiction is a two-level reading series that introduces students to authentic American literature. Student s Book 2 is an anthology of eighteen short stories by contemporary and classic American authors, including Kate Chopin, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, and Shirley Jackson. The stories have universal appeal that will touch students and make them think. Designed for high-intermediate to advanced students, the text provides interactive, integrated skills lessons developed around each story. Pre-reading sections include prior knowledge questions, author biographies, discussions of literary terms, and reviews of idioms and expressions found in the stories. Accompanying grammar exercises help students overcome such trouble areas as prepositions, articles, and irregular verbs. Also included are vocabulary sections, reading comprehension questions, and thought-provoking discussion and writing topics. Review sections tie the stories together and provide review tests.

Discovering Fiction, An Introduction Student's Book with Audio CD

Discovering Fiction, An Introduction Student's Book with Audio CD
Author: Judith Kay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2008-05-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780521703901

North American short stories enhance pre-intermediate students' reading skills, language learning, and enjoyment of literature. Discovering Fiction, An Introduction, has the same unit and chapter structure as the two higher level books, Discovering Fiction Level 1 and Level 2. There are four units, each containing three stories that are related in terms of their theme; extensive prereading and post-reading tasks accompany each story. Unlike the other two books, however, an audio CD containing a reading of each story is packaged into each Student's Book.

Final Draft Level 3 Student's Book

Final Draft Level 3 Student's Book
Author: Andrew Aquino-Cutcher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2015-10-22
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1107495490

Academic writing is difficult, and Final Draft gives students all the tools they need. Writing skills and in-depth analysis of models set the stage for development. Corpus-based vocabulary, collocations, and phrases, as well as detailed information on the grammar of writing, prepare your learners for college writing courses. Students learn to avoid plagiarism in every chapter of every level. This dedicated, long-term focus on plagiarism avoidance helps ensure that these students are able to use sources and highlight their own thoughts.

An Instructional Guide for Literature: The Stories Julian Tells

An Instructional Guide for Literature: The Stories Julian Tells
Author: Melissa Callaghan
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2014-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1480769452

Early readers will be captivated by the fun and delightful short stories that Julian so vividly tells in this well-known children's favorite, by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons provided in this instructional guide for literature about this well-known children's favorite. Readers will enjoy analyzing this complex literary piece as they learn more about how Julian is quick to fib! Analyzing story elements in multiple ways, close reading and text-based vocabulary practice, and determining meaning through text-dependent questions are just a few of the many skills students will walk away with after interacting with the rigorous and appealing cross-curricular lessons and activities in this resource. Written to support the Common Core, each activity and lesson work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend rich, complex literature.