The Building Blocks for Academic Success

Coursebooks vs. School Texts? CoursebooksSchool Texts Aim Specifically designed for EFL Learners Designed for native English speakers (from the United States) Skills Skills Instruction: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing Light emphasis on fundamental skills (vocab, reading strategies, speaking) Ease of UseClear Structure, Easy to TeachExploding Teacher’s Guides Structure Lessons are adaptable to a wide variety of teaching styles Complicated Lesson Structure, hard to adapt to ELT syllabus ContentPuppies and KittensRich Visuals, stimulating content Authenticity Weak Connection to Real-life Topics, Artificial Feel Topics based on State Curricula Feel“Now it’s time to learn English!”Natural Acquisition of English

Coursebooks vs. School Texts? What about Cornerstone? Aim Specifically designed for EFL Learners Designed for native English speakers (from the United States) Skills Skills Instruction: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing Light emphasis on fundamental skills (vocab, reading strategies, speaking) Ease of UseClear Structure, Easy to TeachExploding Teacher’s Guides Structure Lessons are adaptable to a wide variety of teaching styles Complicated Lesson Structure, hard to adapt to ELT syllabus ContentPuppies and KittensRich Visuals, stimulating content Authenticity Weak Connection to Real-life Topics, Artificial Feel Topics based on State Curricula Feel“Now it’s time to learn English!”Natural Acquisition of English Best of Both Worlds!

QUICK FACTS 5 levels 1 & 2 grade based 3 to 5 skill based Systematic skills instruction Unrivaled teacher support Personalized instruction & assessment Theme-based

KEY FEATURE & BENEFIT Accelerated academic vocabulary acquisition through explicit instruction Explicit vocabulary instruction is best predictor of students’ academic achievement Feature Benefit

KEY FEATURE & BENEFIT Develops transferable cross-curricular academic skills Balance of four skills and grammar are an essential part of lifelong academic success Feature Benefit

KEY FEATURE & BENEFIT Provides easy-to-use roadmap to academic success Explicit instruction and tools provide model for effective lesson planning and to monitor student progress Benefit Feature

Cornerstone Unit Structure 1. Introduction-Big Question 2. What Do You Know? 3. Your Stories 4. Vocabulary Practice 5. Main Reading 6. Word Analysis and Fluency 7. Comprehension 8. Grammar and Writing x3 Plus: Bonus Reading, Wrap up Project and Assessment Checklist

KICK OFF EACH UNIT – BIG QUESTION UNIT WALKTHROUGH: KICK OFF EACH UNIT – BIG QUESTION Each unit begins with a Big Question as a thematic starting point

UNIT WALKTHROUGH: KICK OFF EACH UNIT – WORDS TO KNOW Learn new vocabulary for the unit theme.

UNIT WALKTHROUGH: KICK OFF EACH UNIT – MINI-AUTOBIOGRAPHIES Meet other students and hear what they have to say about the theme

UNIT WALKTHROUGH: VOCABULARY Get to know the words before you read.

UNIT WALKTHROUGH: READING Step-by-step reading strategies are presented before each reading.

UNIT WALKTHROUGH: AFTER EACH READING – WORD ANAYLISIS & FLUENCY Refine vocabulary skills and develop fluency

UNIT WALKTHROUGH: AFTER EACH READING – COMPREHENSION Focus on a comprehension skill and practice it using a graphic organizer

UNIT WALKTHROUGH: AFTER THE READING – GRAMMAR & WRITING Learn the rules of grammar and practice helps to improve writing skills

UNIT WALKTHROUGH: WRAP UP – BONUS READING Reading for fun!

UNIT WALKTHROUGH: WRAP UP Checklist for progress monitoring and self-evaluation Discuss the Big Question. Choose an Assessment Project

TEACHER’S EDITION – EASY-TO-USE ROADMAP

Built-in Scope & Sequence Pacing suggestions Teaching Resources

TEACHER’S EDITION – EASY-TO-USE ROADMAP Explicit and systematic skills instruction

ASSESSMENT Placement SummativeAssessments MonitorProgress Exit Ensures appropriate entry in the program Daily, weekly, and unit tasks provide teachers with information on instructional effectiveness and help to inform instructional goals. Designed to measure the mastery of the content and skills of the program. Provides support for teachers in determining when students should reenter the basic programs. Subtests align to the reading/ language arts standards taught and measure the content mastered. Subtests align to reading/ language arts skills that were previously taught.

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THE AUTHORS Anna Uhl Chamot Content-based language learning and Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach (CALLA) Jim Cummins Language acquisition and using technology to promote literacy and language development Sharroky Hollie Culturally-responsive instruction (CRI) and second- language methodology

The Building Blocks for Academic Success