New Sunrise Preschool A Teacher's Guide Unit 1

T10 Appendixes This Is Me! Three personalization pages in which children can depict themselves in their personal, school and family domains. Cutout Pages and Stickers. Stimulate visual and motor skills. There are two types of cutouts (units and projects) and a sticker page per unit. B. Workbook The purpose of the Workbook is to practice and reinforce the contents being presented in the Student’s Book. It includes additional pages for the students’ portfolios. C. Teacher’s Guide Here teachers will find a variety of resources and ideas to plan and deliver the lessons. The introduction presents the principles and the characteristics of the program, as well as the scope and sequence charts. The guide also includes complete plans for every lesson, audio scripts, additional ideas, teaching tips, home connections, photocopiable materials and suggestions on how to work on values and social and emotional learning. 1. Four steps to ensure communicative language teaching: • Warm up: Activities that provide context and help activate students’ prior knowledge, inviting them to get involved in the meaning-making of the lesson. • Presentation: Activities that present content and language fundamentals. Listening and speaking skills are emphasized at this stage. • Practice: Controlled and semi-controlled activities that promote language use in communicative situations. All language skills are developed progressively. • Application: Activities that help learners refine learning, motivating them to gradually test and hypothesize their use of the language. 2. Progress indicators and assessment. 3. Guidance on how to approach the activities and tasks, as well as management tips. 4. Supplementary ideas and suggestions on the timing of the activities during the unit. 5. Useful clues concerning the values of the stories. 6. Pronunciation tips. 7. Suggestions on how to approach social and emotional learning. 8. Recommendations on how to guide parents to work with their children at home. 9. Reading comprehension is developed in three stages: before reading, while reading and after reading .