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English through Play
Pre-primary
Mario Herrera and Barbara Hojel
About the Authors
Welcome to Balloons, a three-level language course for three-, four-, and five-year-olds that introduces children to English through play.
- Children learn language through games, cutouts, and other hands-on activities
- Five-step unit lesson
plan: Warm Up, Presentation, Practice, Application, and Assessment
- Animal mascots puppets model language, and children respond!
- Children practice songs, chants, and conversations
- Built-in picture dictionary shows new and recycled vocabulary
- Children make Tell-a-Story books to take home to their families
- Interleaved Teacher's Editions provide everything teachers need in an easy-to-teach format
- Nine read-aloud English for Me! Storybooks, written especially for new English-language learners, can be used with all three levels
Frequently Asked Questions About Balloons
Program Components
Student Books
- Richly illustrated in full color
- Provide contextualized presentation, opportunities for practice and application, and assessment
- Recurring characters
- Include unique Tell-a-Story books to take home
Workbooks
- Provide opportunities for home and classroom practice
- Reinforce language taught in the Student Books
- Make-your-own Little Books
Picture Cards
- Introduce and practice new language
- Offer opportunities for games
Interleaved Teacher's Editions
Everything teachers need to create communicative, playful, successful classrooms!
- Full-sized Student Book pages
- Easy three-step organization throughout each unit:
- Before the Book
- Using the Book
- After the Book
- Conversations
- Songs, chants
- Games
- Total physical response (TPR) activities
- Cross-curricular connections
- Bulletin board suggestions
- Time guidelines
- Family connections
- "Teacher Talk" activities for each step of the five-step unit lesson plan in each unit
Audio Program
- Conversations and language patterns
- Songs and chants
- Available on both cassette and CD
Mascots
- Provide a soft and cuddly way to model language with puppets
English for Me! Storybooks
By Barbara Hojel and Ginger Guy
- Nine read-aloud storybooks (one for each of the nine themes of Balloons); can be used with all three levels
- Written specifically for children who are English language learners
- All vocabulary is introduced in Balloons
- Engaging illustrations with picture clues that support the text
- Stories are recorded on audiocassette
- Nine themes:
–My School
–My Body
–People We Know
–Animals We Like
–Things We Wear
–Things We Eat
–From Here to There
–Our Environment
–Changes, Changes
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