BIOGRAPHIES: Short, Stories Based on the Messages of People's Lives = 44-Page Activity & Idea Book

Most language teachers and learners enjoy reading and hearing about real people, so biographical material is intrinsically motivating. There is much that teachers and students can learn from short biographies with a focus—“messages” from both famous and ordinary people’s lives.  In addition to reasons and ways to use biographical material as lesson content, this 44-page Activity & Idea Book, originally a resource in the "Tools for Talented Teachers" series, offers suggestions for sources of information, with instructions for simplifying or adapting their language to educational purposes.

Use these engaging, effective ideas to teach or learn reading skills and strategies (getting the main idea, recognizing supporting detail, summarizing, and paraphrasing), to practice and test listening comprehension of “mini-speeches,” to provide writing practice based on biographical models, and much more!  Reproducible on overheads or as handouts, thirty different biographies to teach or learn from are included with comprehension checks—at three levels of reading difficulty from high beginning to high intermediate.

ISBN: 978-1-891077-08-1

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(A much larger, full-sized update of Biographies: Short, Short Stories Based on the Messages of People's Lives [978-1-934637-34-0] is in development.  In addition to the original material of its predecessor, this revision will include three sections of multi-leveled Biographies: 18 for new readers, 24 for Intermediate learners, and eight "Group Bios" at a Low-Advanced reading level.  Reproducible on two-sided pages and/or on durable card stock in a "Biography Reading Kit," each selection will provide Vocabulary, Comprehension, & Summarizing Exercises on the back--as well as comprehensive quizzes on the offered material and ideas for beyond-the-text Games of Knowledge: Biographies.)