Excellent English equips students with the grammar and skills they need to access community resources, while developing the foundation for long-term career and academic success. Excellent English is a four-level, standards-based series for English learners featuring a Grammar Picture Dictionary approach to vocabulary building and grammar acquisition. Unit lessons systematically build launguage and math skills around life-skill topics in an accessible and predictable sequence. This beginning level package includes the student book with audio highlights and an accompanying workbook.

Excellent English 1 Student Book w/ Audio Highlights and Workbook Package

Reference

Podnecky, Janet

Sherman,Kristin

Velasco,Shirley

Forstrom,Jan

MacKay,Susannah

Pitt,Marta

English as a Second Language

Success in the U.S. is a collection of touching, humorous stories told by immigrants about all kinds of success.

Success in the US: Immigrants' True Stories

Literature & Fiction

Turner, Corinne

Shane, Judy

United States

Oxford University Press

Step Forward is the best-selling standards-based, four-skills course that improves student outcomes by integrating language instruction into real-life contexts. Designed to build workplace skills, the vocabulary in Step Forward is based on the vocabulary of the Oxford Picture Dictionary providing easy supplementing and a rich, integrated instructional experience. A consistent unit sequence includes vocabulary, life stories, grammar, everyday conversation and real-life reading, carefully developing learners' skills, while a transparent lesson structure makes the text accessible to learners, minimizing preparation time. Strong vocabulary and grammar strands provide learners with the tools they need to achieve civics, workplace, life-skills and academic competencies. All Step Forward program components support multilevel instruction. Varied instructional strategies and clear identi?cation of objectives contribute to learner persistence and a variety of assessment tools allow teachers and learners to monitor progress.

Step Forward 1 Workbook

Adelson-Goldstein, Jayme

Step Forward is the best-selling standards-based, four-skills course that improves student outcomes by integrating language instruction into real-life contexts. Designed to build workplace skills, the vocabulary in Step Forward is based on the vocabulary of the Oxford Picture Dictionary - providing easy supplementing and a rich, integrated instructional experience. A consistent unit sequence includes vocabulary, life stories, grammar, everyday conversation and real-life reading, carefully developing learners skills, while a transparent lesson structure makes the text accessible to learners, minimizing preparation time. Strong vocabulary and grammar strands provide learners with the tools they need to achieve civics, workplace, life-skills and academic competencies. All Step Forward program components support multilevel instruction. Varied instructional strategies and clear identification of objectives contribute to learner persistence and a variety of assessment tools allow teachers and learners to monitor progress.

Step Forward 3 Workbook

The Step Forward Workbook is the perfect partner for the Student Book, offering additional practice for every lesson in the student book and reinforcing what students have learned in class. The Step Forward Second Edition series provides the essential language, skills and rigorous content that adult English language learners need to move confidently toward their work and academic goals. The Workbook's content includes 'Another Look' pages, which revisit the unit vocabulary, and 'Do the Math' exercises, which give students the skills they need to be ready for work. Newly revised to align with the College and Career Readiness Standards (CCR) and the English Language Proficiency Standards (ELP), Step Forward ensures that learners are well prepared to use their English in the real world. HIGHLIGHTS � The Workbook offers additional practice for every lesson in the Student Book, whether students are learning English in a class or independently � Designed to meet the needs of multilevel classes, the easy-to-use activities cover vocabulary, grammar and more � Step-by-step writing instruction offers clear models and strategies for adults learning English as a foreign language for life, college or career � Content is appropriate for low-beginning to low-intermediate English as a second language (ESL) learners and English language teaching (ELT) professionals

Step Forward 2E Level 1 Workbook: Standards-based language learning for work and academic readiness

The Step Forward Student Book and Workbook Pack provides learners with the complete package of Step Forward content. The Student Book incorporates all of the skills learners need to pursue a career or educational program in the USA and the Workbook offers additional practice for every lesson in the student book and reinforces what students have learned in class. The Step Forward Second Edition series provides the essential language, skills and rigorous content that adult English language learners need to move confidently toward their work and academic goals. An access code for the Oxford English Vocabulary Trainer app comes with the pack, allowing students to download the Step Forward wordlist to practice course-specific vocabulary. The app provides engaging and gamified practice with personalized, intelligent feedback. Newly revised to align with the College and Career Readiness Standards (CCR) and the English Language Proficiency Standards (ELP), Step Forward ensures that learners are well prepared to use their English in the real world. HIGHLIGHTS � The Student Book includes one-page 'At Work' sections in every unit that build the essential skills students need in the workplace and 'Everyday Conversation' lessons, which focus on the functional English that students need � The Workbook's content includes 'Another Look' pages, which revisit the unit vocabulary, and 'Do the Math' exercised, which give students the skills they need to be ready for work � Designed to meet the needs of multilevel classes, the full suite of easy-to-use resources in Step Forward include tests, lesson plans, multilevel activities and opportunities for self-assessment � Step-by-step writing instruction offers clear models and strategies for adults learning English as a foreign language for life, college or career � Content is appropriate for low-beginning to low-intermediate English as a second language (ESL) learners and English language teaching (ELT) professionals

Step Forward 2E Level 1 Student Book and Workbook Pack: Standards-based language learning for work and academic readiness

Currie Santamaria, Jenni

The Step Forward Workbook is the perfect partner for the Student Book, offering additional practice for every lesson in the student book and reinforcing what students have learned in class. The Step Forward Second Edition series provides the essential language, skills and rigorous content that adult English language learners need to move confidently toward their work and academic goals. The Workbook's content includes 'Another Look' pages, which revisit the unit vocabulary, and 'Do the Math' exercises, which give students the skills they need to be ready for work. Newly revised to align with the College and Career Readiness Standards (CCR) and the English Language Proficiency Standards (ELP), Step Forward ensures that learners are well prepared to use their English in the real world. HIGHLIGHTS · The Workbook offers additional practice for every lesson in the Student Book, whether students are learning English in a class or independently · Designed to meet the needs of multilevel classes, the easy-to-use activities cover vocabulary, grammar and more · Step-by-step writing instruction offers clear models and strategies for adults learning English as a foreign language for life, college or career · Content is appropriate for low-beginning to low-intermediate English as a second language (ESL) learners and English language teaching (ELT) professionals

Step Forward 2E Level 3 Workbook: Standards-based language learning for work and academic readiness

Step Forward 2E Level 3 Student Book and Workbook Pack: Standards-based language learning for work and academic readiness

Spigarelli, Jane

Appropriate for low beginning level ESL courses, the first volume in the theme-based Grammar Links series offers a communicative approach with a traditional focus on form. The text offers clear, accurate, and comprehensive grammar reference material, useful to students throughout life; a strong emphasis on the pragmatics of formal versus informal language; and ample contexualized, four-skills practice.
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Grammar Briefings cover the structure of the English language as well as functions and meanings.</li>
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Talking the Talk boxes address pragmatic concerns about grammatical choices in written and spoken English, such as levels of formality, slang, and metaphorical usage.</li>
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Grammar Hotspot boxes alert students to predictable grammar problems and explain how to avoid them.</li>
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Grammar Links 1: Complete Edition

Butler, Linda

Mahnke, Kathleen

Heinle & Heinle Pub

The Grammar Links series uses a communicative, theme-based approach to help students link grammar to the real world. Students benefit from comprehensive grammar coverage, a strong emphasis on formal versus informal language, and an abundance of contextualized, four-skills (reading, writing, speaking, and listening) practice exercises and activities.

Grammar Links 1: A Theme-Based Course for Reference and Practice, Second Edition (Student Book)

Houghton, Mifflin Company

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