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The Florida Department of Education has adopted Longman Cornerstone (elementary ESOL), Longman Keystone (English/Language Arts through ESOL), and Longman Keys to Learning (Developmental English through ESOL).Vocabulary knowledge is the single best predictor of students' future academic success across the curriculum. Longman Cornerstone and Longman Keystone provide explicit instruction in academic vocabulary throughout all levels of the series.
Content-rich readings from across the curriculum paired with modeled learning strategies equip students with the tools they need to achieve academic success as they transition to mainstream classrooms.
A well-organized, yet easy-to-use roadmap of skills is essential to helping your students achieve success. The step-by-step lesson plan and built-in strategies for differentiated instruction ensures that every learner gets the support he or she needs to achieve long term academic success.
Teaching Tip
The Roots of -ible / -able
The suffixes -ible and -able both originate in the Latin suffixes -abilis and -ibilis and signify adjectives that describe ability and capacity. Point out an additional rule of thumb for distinguishing between -able and -ible words. The suffix -able is added to complete English verbs. This makes sense since the suffix means capable of creating the action described by the verb. Example: Breakable means can break, laughable means can make you laugh. The suffix -ible, on the other hand, is added to incomplete roots originating in other languages. Example: The root of visible, for example, is the Latin word visio, meaning apparition/idea. Visible therefore means capable of creating an apparition.
From Longman
Keystone B, Teacher's Edition
