[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 11 | June 1, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]
Catch up on this webinar from Cambridge University Press with Ventures authors Lynn Savage, Donna Price and Sylvia Ramirez.
The College and Career Readiness (CCR) Standards for Adult Education promote three important tenets of instruction:
• Texts worth reading
• Questions worth answering
• Work worth doing
The presenters will discuss these key principles in relation to new extended reading worksheets developed for the highest level of the Ventures series, Transitions, and now available on the Ventures Online Teacher’s Resource Room.
The new extended reading worksheets provide:
• complex informational texts that build on unit themes and provide opposing viewpoints to readings in the Transitions Student’s Book
• emphasis on academic vocabulary and exercises that develop reading strategies appropriate to the text
• text-dependent questions that rely on the language and mechanics of the text itself, rather than personal experience or opinion
• practice with useful academic language functions
• culminating writing activities that demand evidence to form opinions, compare, problem solve, or persuade