High Beginner
Grade 4 to Adult
Pat Dyck
Text 132 pages
Take A Look Inside
If your high beginner students are reading sentences, but need support to move on to stories, this book is written for you. The 16 uplifting, high-interest news stories in this book are 100-150 words long and written in 20 or so short simple sentences. The first version of each story is in comic strip form. This allows students to understand the basic plot and brainstorm for vocabulary. The next version is an easy-to-read sentence-by-sentence format, i.e., each sentence is on its own line. Later in each unit your students will have the option of reading the story in paragraph form. There are a wide variety of ready-to-photocopy exercises to reinforce new vocabulary and ideas.
THE CONTENTS
LUIS, THE AVALANCHE HERO
A student saves two climbers caught in an avalanche.
- Comic Strip
- Text Story
- Subject, Verb & Object
- Making Corrections
- Verbs - Present & Past
- Nouns - Singular & Plural
- Present Tense Questions with "Is" & "Are"
- Past Tense Questions with "Was" & "Were"
- Word Meanings
- Fill in the Blanks
- Verb Word Find
- Pronunciation Tips - The Long "o"
TONY, THE HIGHWAY HERO
A motorcyclist saves a family from a burning van.
9 Comic Strip
10 Text Story
11 Fill in the Blanks
11 Complete the Sentence with an Object
12 Nouns - People, Places & Things
12 Verbs - Past & Present
13 Past Tense Verb Rules
14 Writing Questions with "Did"
15 Change the Meaning Using "Doesn't" or "Don't"
16 Pronunciation Tips - Two Vowel Sounds "ai" "ea" "oa"
BLANKET HEROES
Three girls use a blanket to save a boy who falls out of a window.
17 Comic Strip
18 Text Story
19 Fill in the Blanks
19 Circle the Words that are Similar
19 Answer the Questions in Complete Sentences
20 Past Tense Verbs
20 Past Tense Verbs that Sound the Same
21 Write Past Tense Sentences
21 Sequencing
22 Plurals with "es" Rule
22 Plurals that end in "y"
23 Changing Singular to Plural Verbs
24 Pronunciation Tips - "oi" "oy"
24 Test Your Spelling
FOREST FIRE HERO
A helicopter pilot saves a firefighter.
25 Comic Strip
26 Text Story
27 Make a Complete Sentence
27 "Yes, it was." "No, it wasn't."
28 Verbs - Past & Present Tense
29 Opposites
29 Questions & Negatives
30 Sentence Writing
30 Fill in the Blanks
31 Illustrated Crossword
32 Pronunciation Tips - Final Silent "e"
PILOT HERO
An airliner with 310 passengers is flying over the Atlantic Ocean when both engines fail. A cool-headed pilot lands the plane safely.
33 Comic Strip
34 Text Story
35 What am I?
35 Correct the Mistake
36 Adjectives & Adverbs
37 Verbs - to be
37 Negatives - didn't + the main verb
38 Circle Two Words that are Similar
38 Heroes
39 Writing Numbers
40 Pronunciation Tips - "th"
DOG SAVES WOMAN
A woman falls & is saved by her dog.
41 Comic Strip
42 Text Story
43 True or False
43 Answer the Questions in Complete Sentences
44 Opposites
44 Fill in the Blanks
45 46 Rules to Make Past Tense Verbs
47 Irregular Past Tense Verbs
48 Pronunciation Tips - Past Tense Verbs
RAY SAVES THE DUCKS
A duck persuades a man to rescue her ducklings.
49 Comic Strip
50 Text Story
51 Definitions
51 Answer the Questions in Complete Sentences
52 Negatives & Positives
53 Verbs - Past Tense
54 Making Plurals
55 Emergency & Safety Bingo
56 Pronunciation Tips - "er" "ir" "ur" All Sound Like "r"
LEE AND THE SHARK
A scuba diving fisherman is pulled out to sea by a shark.
57 Comic Strip
58 Text Story
59 True or False
59 Questions & Short Answers with "Can"
60 Questions & Negatives with "Does" & "Doesn't"
61 Say the Same Thing in Two Different Ways
61 Opposites
62 Verbs - Present & Past Tense
63 Illustrated Crossword - Transportation
64 Pronunciation Tips - "ar" = "r"
CHERYL AND THE COUGAR
A woman is stalked by a cougar.
65 Comic Strip
66 Text Story
67 Corrections and Negative Sentences
68 Verbs - Past tense
69 Pronouns & Possessives for Male & Female
70 Animals
70 Wild Animals, Farm Animals or Pets
70 "Yes, they are." "No, they aren't."
71 Opposites Crossword
72 Pronunciation Tips-"ch" "sh" "wh" & "ph"
THE PROBLEM
Bob & Tia want to get married, but Bob's pet is a problem.
73 Comic Strip
74 Text Story
75 Cross Out the Wrong Word, Correct the Sentence
75 "Sometimes," "Always," "Usually" or "Never"
76 The Apostrophe '
77 Look and Answer Using Apostrophes
78 Personal Pronouns & Past Tense
78 Write the Correct Present Tense Verb
79 Writing with New Vocabulary
79 One Word Doesn't Belong
79 Pets - "Yes. I would." "No, I wouldn't."
80 Pronunciation Tips - Long "a" Sounds
THE TOURIST HERO
A woman jumps into a canal to rescue a drowning man.
81 Comic Strip
82 Text Story
83 Using Negatives
83 Opposites
84 "Like" & "Like To"
85 "Have To," "Must" and "Had To"
86 "A" & "An"
87 Illustrated Air Travel Crossword
88 Pronunciation Tips - Short Vowels
A HARD WORKING HOCKEY PLAYER
A hockey player recovers from a car crash and plays in the NHL.
89 Comic Strip
90 Text Story
91 Parts of the Body
91 "Can" & "Can't" - "Could" & "Couldn't"
92 Past Tense Verbs
93 Questions - Write and Answer
94 Sports and Recreation
95 More Sports
96 Pronunciation Tips - Silent Letters
A RICH WAITRESS
Six friends win 14 million dollars in a lottery.
97 Comic Strip
98 Text Story
99 Cross Out the Words that are Wrong
99 Questions
100 The Future Tense
101 The Verb "to be," Present & Future
102 Sentence Completion
102 Fill in the Blanks
103 Giving Short Answers
104 Pronunciation Tips - The Many Sounds of "o"
ASHLEY'S DREAM
A fifteen-year-old girl with no hands & feet swims 20 kilometers across Lake Erie.
105 Comic Strip
106 Text Story
107 Definitions
107 Proud Of
108 Past Tense Negatives & Questions - "Did" & "Didn't"
109 Negatives & Questions - the verb "to be"
110 Medical Bingo
111 What Do You Practise? "No, I don't." "Yes, I do."
111 Your Dream
112 Pronunciation Tips - "y" & "ea"
NEW HOPE
A woman loses her job, her father dies & her house burns down. Volunteers build her a new house.
113 Comic Strip
114 Text Story
115 Definitions
115 Sequencing
116 Asking Past Tense Questions
117 Volunteer & Donate
118 & 119 Greeting Cards Express Our Feelings
120 Pronunciation Tips - The Final Silent "e"
THE MIRACLE BABY
In the middle of the night a toddler in a T-shirt & diaper wanders outside in -20 degree weather. Her father finds her hours later
frozen with no heart beat. Miraculously she survives.
121 Comic Strip
122 Text Story
123 Objects - "Who" & "What?"
123 Adverbs - "Where," "When" & "How Long?"
124 Irregular Past Tense
125 "Can" & "Could"
126 Present Continuous - "to be" + main verb + ing
126 Tell the Story in the Present Continuous
126 Miracles
127 Illustrated Weather Crossword
128 Pronunciation Tips - Hard & Soft "c" & "g"
Index
129 Bingo Template
Text 132 pages
ISBN 1-894799-03-8
$69.95 CDN
Price Includes Photocopy Permission for One Purchasing School or One Purchasing Teacher
