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Holiday Happenings: HALLOWEEN = 106-Page How-To Teaching & Learning Resource Book
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Holiday Happenings HALLOWEEN: Using Special-Occasion Cultural Materials in Language Skills Activities = 106-Page Activity & Idea Book
One reason teachers and students enjoy special-occasion materials is that they provide pleasant diversions from everyday language lessons—instruction in listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar, and vocabulary. On the other hand, "holiday lessons” can also be time-wasters—especially in courses with a required curriculum to cover or a specified language-proficiency level to achieve. It makes sense, therefore, to use information about holiday culture and customs as language-teaching and learning vehicles. There is so much material to choose from in this revised and expanded book--all designed to reduce academic tedium without wasting valuable instructional time--that you can use a different combination of offerings every Fall.
This 106-page, full-sized, complete, and reproducible source book offers two levels of reading selections on the history and culture of Halloween and the "Days of the Dead" that follow. These are accompanied by recommended steps for teaching readers how to get main ideas, organize information, and summarize. Multi-level quizzes on the main points and important supporting detail of the readings follow. Some of the suggested oral-skills activities for which materials are provided are Story-Telling & Retelling, Information-Gap Activities, and Sequenced Oral Presentations. Vocabulary activities, all based on special-occasion content, include lessons in Parts of Speech and Guessing Meaning from Context as well as card games and puzzles. There are also Sentence Strips ("Superstitions in American Culture") for pronunciation practice, ghost stories, holiday game and media suggestions, and more.
ISBN: 1-891077-06-6. $20.00 US
One reason teachers and students enjoy special-occasion materials is that they provide pleasant diversions from everyday language lessons—instruction in listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar, and vocabulary. On the other hand, "holiday lessons” can also be time-wasters—especially in courses with a required curriculum to cover or a specified language-proficiency level to achieve. It makes sense, therefore, to use information about holiday culture and customs as language-teaching and learning vehicles. There is so much material to choose from in this revised and expanded book--all designed to reduce academic tedium without wasting valuable instructional time--that you can use a different combination of offerings every Fall.
This 106-page, full-sized, complete, and reproducible source book offers two levels of reading selections on the history and culture of Halloween and the "Days of the Dead" that follow. These are accompanied by recommended steps for teaching readers how to get main ideas, organize information, and summarize. Multi-level quizzes on the main points and important supporting detail of the readings follow. Some of the suggested oral-skills activities for which materials are provided are Story-Telling & Retelling, Information-Gap Activities, and Sequenced Oral Presentations. Vocabulary activities, all based on special-occasion content, include lessons in Parts of Speech and Guessing Meaning from Context as well as card games and puzzles. There are also Sentence Strips ("Superstitions in American Culture") for pronunciation practice, ghost stories, holiday game and media suggestions, and more.
ISBN: 1-891077-06-6. $20.00 US
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Holiday Happenings Halloween Intro and T of C
(Possible Bonus Freebies include [a] a 52-Card Deck of Four-of-a-Kind Halloween Symbols [b] a Card Deck of Special-Occasion Vocabulary and [c] the half-sized Halloween Book that preceded this greatly expanded revision.)
