Reading Foundational Skills

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Students have conversation about favorite places, learn about a United States national monument by watching a video and answering questions, and then select a place in the U.S. to research and present on.

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This chapter teaches students how to make a doctor's appointment.

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Students watch videos and take notes to learn idioms, practice the idioms in conversation and on an online discussion forum (optionally), and then create a "quiz" for their classmates OR select a new idiom from the video channel or other sites,  create a presentation to teach the class the idiom(s) by creating a PowerPoint or Google Slideshow presentation, writing and performing a dialog, using Web sites to create digital films or comic strips based on dialogs, making an infographic, or making videos.

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Students can choose different stories to read. Each story has 4 activities plus a typing practice.

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This activity teaches students how to separate food for safety.

This is a beginning literacy activity for students who are learning the alphabet. They will be able to spell and write their first name, last name and address by the end of the activity.

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In this activity, students identify foods and categorize them according to food group, discuss the MyPlate image, draw a MyPlate image showing how much of each food group they typically eat, write sentences about their eating habits and what they should change, compare their eating habits with other students, and research key consumer messages for each of the food groups on the ChooseMyPlate Web site.

This activity aims to develop student understanding of healthy, balanced eating and provides practice of basic food vocabulary, the present simple tense, comparatives (more than/less than), and the modal "should."

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Students describe clothing in a prepared oral presentation and explain how an outfit is appropriate for a particular event or situation.