"She has gone to great lengths to ensure that the images used are not ambiguous to the students. "I want to just start first by telling you the two things right off the bat that I like most about the jobs that Nancy Callan has done on this book. View a review of Callan's Beginner Essentials by Kelly Morrissey below: Check out these classroom matching cards and bingo cards. The book is "sanitized for your protection", meaning that you will not find odd, low frequency words or pictures students do not readily understand. Teacher and student frustration are thereby minimized.Ĭheck below for sample pages. No, it isn't.) As of page 75, no template is given and students are required to answer mixed questions without guidance. Up until page 75, students are given the template of how to answer. Each picture page, where students listen and write the letter they hear, is followed by a grammar page where students practice one of the following questions and short answers, using the vocabulary from the previous page. The book uses mainly simple 2-6 letter words to exemplify English sounds and spelling conventions. Callan's Beginner Essentials with illustrations by Mark Perrault is a skill building book geared for literacy and low beginner ESL / EFL students with little knowledge of the sounds and letters or spelling conventions of English.
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