Accelerates Academic Vocabulary

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.

Develops Transferable Skills

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 Roadmap to Academic Success

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.

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Cornerstone Program Components:

Florida Teacher’s Edition
Standards-based lessons use an easy-to-follow step-by-step approach to delivering explicit instruction and teaching skills to mastery.

Practice Book
Additional practiceand extension activities for each skill taught. Includes a Reader’s Companion for the three core readings in each unit.

Placement and Exit Tests
Help place students in the appropriate level of Longman Cornerstone, and identify points of exit into mainstream programs.

Florida Assessment Book
Includes standards-based tests for every reading selection as well as summative unit tests, a diagnostic pretest, a midterm test, and a post-test so that teachers can measure student progress effectively throughout the year.

Transparencies
Include daily language practice, vocabulary building activities, handwriting practice and graphic organizers to help facilitate discussion of the Big Question.

Teacher's Resource Book
Includes blackline masters of graphic organizers and answer keys for the Practice
Book, Letters Home, to introduce the unit to students’ families, as well
as summaries for every reading in the Student Edition.

Instructional Posters
24” X 36” posters feature unit vocabulary to build students’ skills with theme related word families. There are three additional posters per level with grammar and writing rules and strategies.

Program Audio Cd
Includes recordings of each of the readings, academic
and key vocabulary words with sample sentences.

Video DVD
Provides 5–7 minutes of background-building
information on the theme or topic of each unit.

Florida Teacher’s CD-ROM with Examview® Assessment Suite
Includes the entire contents of the Teacher’s Edition and Teaching Resources plus the built-in ExamView   Assessment Suite to provide a powerful and easy-to-use tool for standards-based
assessment and reporting.

Student CD-ROM w/ eBook
The entire Student Edition on CD-ROM with additional  inter-activities for skills taught in text.  Also includes complete video and audio recordings, hyperlinks to web resources, and a “Read and Record” feature that allows students to practice their reading and speaking fluency.

Phonics and Word Analysis Kit
The Phonics and Word Analysis Kit builds the foundational phonics, phonemic awareness, and vocabulary skills for emerging readers, English learners, students with interrupted formal education, and other learners with severely limited reading abilities.

 

  1. Phonics Workbook

    2. The Phonics Workbook provides instruction and practice in each sound/symbol combination.

  2. Phonics Worktext

    3. The Phonics Worktext provides instruction and practice in each sound/symbol combination.

  3. Phonics Teacher’s Guide with Audio CD

    4. Teacher’s guide to each phonics concept with step-by-step lesson plans. The Audio CD provides pronunciation of phonemes and words to build phonemic awareness and vocabulary.

  4. Phonics Flashcards

    5. Flashcards to help student practice and master sound/symbol combinations.

  5. Decodable Reader Set

High-interest readings with highly controlled vocabulary to help learners decode text and build reading confidence.