This book consists of 50 activities that focus primarily on reading and writing, although your students will use a little listening and speaking in places too. The activities are presented with clear topics, objectives, levels, instructions and timelines. Each activity comes with ready-to-go photocopiable templates. Games board templates, cards, bingos, illustrations - anything you need to get ready for the activities is included in the book. Your students will learn to read news stories for the five W’s and H facts, read a TV guide, write descriptions of sports clothing, describe a the floor plan of a house, read rebus stories, write about jobs and work sites, write wanted posters, fill in speech bubbles, write a list of pros and cons, and much more. Many of the activities are age appropriate for children and adults, while in other activities alternative tasks have been included to address the issue of age appropriate material. This book is educational, fun, and easy-to-use.

Actvities and Topics:

#1 W’s and H Facts
•     Main facts of a story
#2 What’s On TV?
•     TV Guide
#3 Sports Fashion
•     Clothing and Sports
#4 Sell a House
•     Describing a House
#5 Rebus Stories
•     Stories
#6 Consequences
•     Consequences
#7 Jobs Etc.
•     Jobs, Duties and Worksites
#8 Your Top Ten
•     Favourites
#9 Idioms Match
•     Idioms
#10 Warm Fuzzies
•     Adjectives
#11 Bumper Stickers
•     Slogans and Sayings
#12 Be the Designer
•     Inventions and Design
#13 Homonyms
•     Homonyms
#14 Vacation Time
•     Vacation Spots
#15 Carpenter
•     Tools
#16 “Wanted” Posters
•     Describing Faces
#17 Speech Bubbles
•     Exclamations
#18 Menu Maker
•     Food Items
#19 Pros & Cons
•     Decisions
#20 Categorize These
•     Categories
#21 Famous Places
•     Places of Interest
#22 Self-Report
•     Self Evaluation
#23 Shopping Around
•     Shopping
#24 Job Search
•     Applying for a Job
#25 Commercials
•     Advertising
#26 Recipes
•     Food
#27 Clothing Ads
•     Clothing
#28 Favourites
•     Favourites
#29 Excuses & Reasons
•     Excuses & Reasons
#30 Animals Parts
•     Labelling Animals
#31 Yellow Pages
•     Reading Ads
#32 Adjective Poem
•     Adjectives
#33 Order Forms
•     Order Forms
#34 Fortune Cookies
•     Future Tense
#35 Writing Letters
•     Giving Advice
#36 My Journal
•     Daily Journal Entries
#37 Rules to Live By
•     Lists of Rules
#38 Review It
•     Opinions
#39 Memory
•     Health & School Themes
#40 Ugly Contest
•     Describing Monsters
#41 Where Does It Go?
•     House & Furniture
#42 Buy a Pizza
•     Ordering a Pizza
#43 Lost & Found
•     Lost & Found Ads
#44 Similes
•     Comparing Using As
#45 Fluency
•     Vocabulary Review
#46 Tuscaloosa
•     Describing Activities
#47 I’d Like to Live
•     Housing
#48 Animal Research
•     Research
#49 Convince Me
•     Persuasive Reasons
#50 Small Books
•     Theme & Pattern Books

Text 130 pages
ISBN 978-1-894799-15-7
$59.95 CDN
Photocopy Permission for One Purchasing Site/School or One Purchasing Teacher