Picture Stories Language and Literacy Activities for Beginners

Here's the perfect series for students with little or no literacy skills in English or in their first language. By using stories about immigrant families' experiences when they first arrived in the U.S., the authors present pictures students are certain to understand. Literacy skills as well as more complex tasks in listening, speaking, reading, and writing are learned, practiced, and reinforced using these different picture stories as the focus for each unit.Students will: -- Talk about the pictures.-- Number the pictures in sequential order.-- Match the pictures with the printed words.-- Complete fill-in-the-blank activities.-- Write the stories.Told through a sequence of ten pictures, each of the sixteen stories deals with a cultural topic such as using the telephone, on-the-job responsibilities, or male/female relationships.Ligon, Fred is the author of 'Picture Stories Language and Literacy Activities for Beginners' with ISBN 9780801303661 and ISBN 0801303664.