Patti Halfman
Description
Ages: 9-14Grades: 4-9
These ready-to-use lessons give your upper elementary and junior high students the practice they need to master language in six skill areas.
The 100% Series boost language performance with:
- a broad scope of skills
- hierarchy of activities
- hefty amounts of practice
100% Language Intermediate helps students understand and use language more effectively. The 170 one-page lessons help students learn to apply language skills to the classroom. Lessons are organized into six language skill areas. Each skill area consists of 24 one-page activities with teaching suggestions, a progress chart, and a family letter.
- Sequencing Learn the vocabulary of sequencing and understand time concepts. Improve patterning, following directions, and the sequencing of stories and events.
- Cause & Effect Understand the cause/effect relationship and the consequences of their actions on themselves and others. Identify the chain of events that might occur so better decisions are made.
- Problem Solving Use language skills to identify, understand, solve, and avoid problems. Activities are provided with and without picture supports.
- Opinions Differentiate fact from opinion. Practice expressing opinions, preferences, and ideas. The activities require verbal and written responses.
- Inferencing Apply prior knowledge to new information based on what is seen and heard, and make a reasonable deduction. Activities are provided with and without picture supports.
- Paraphrasing Students restate information in their own words. They begin by using synonyms and progress to restating information in phrases, sentences, and directions.
- Answer Key
183 pages 8.5 x 11, softcover 2004