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
Inflections of Verbs
Point out that the inflections -ed and -ing are used only with verbs. The ending -ed marks the past tense, and -ing marks a present participle or a gerund. Remind students of another verb inflection: the third-personal-singular marker -s. Many other languages use inflection. Japanese verbs are highly inflected, adding syllables to mark the person, tense and mood of a verb. Languages with inflection are called agglutinative languages, describing the fact that they add – or glue – syllables to a word to mark its role in a sentence. Chinese, Vietnamese, and Thai do not use inflection of verbs or any other word group. These languages are called analytic languages, because they use separate particles to distinguish a word’s role in the sentence. Students from these language backgrounds may need extra support when learning verb forms.
From Longman
Keystone B, Teacher's Edition
