State Adopted!
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
Habitual Be
Conducting formal interviews involves the formal use of language, and this includes subject-verb agreement. Some dialects, and African-American vernacular English, include the “habitual be” instead of the inflected forms of is and are; for example, the sentence My sister is sick. is expressed as My sister be sick. This language feature signifies a habitual or permanent state; i.e., My sister be sick indicates that the speaker’s sister is sick all the time. As students prepare and practice interviews, focus their attention on the use of is and are in the questions they ask.
From Longman
Keystone B, Teacher's Edition
