Additional information
by Dylan Viñales (Author), Gianfranco Conti (Author)
Italian Primary Sentence Builders is a workbook aimed at younger learners (7 to 11 years old), co-authored by six modern languages educators with over 90 years of extensive classroom experience between the five, both in the UK and internationally; including over 20 years of experience in primary contexts.
This 'no-frills' book contains 10 units of work on very popular themes, jam-packed with graded vocabulary-building, reading, translation, retrieval practice and writing activities. Key vocabulary, lexical patterns and structures are recycled and interleaved throughout.
Each unit includes:
- a sentence builder modelling the target constructions, introduced by questions to guide communication;
- set of Listening-As-Modelling activities to train decoding skills, sound awareness, speech-segmentation, lexical-retrieval and parsing skills;
- a set of reading tasks focusing on both the meaning and structural levels of the text;
- a set of translation tasks aimed at consolidation through retrieval practice;
- a set of writing tasks targeting essential micro-skills such as spelling, lexical retrieval, syntax, editing and communication of meaning.
Based on the E.P.I. principle that learners learn best from comprehensible and highly patterned input flooded with the target linguistic features, the authors have carefully designed each and every text and activity to enable the student to process and produce each item many times over. Alongside the units you will find 'No Snakes No Ladders' tasks created to practise speaking skills with an engaging and fun board game that can be photocopied and played in groups of 3 students.
The audio tracks for all listening activities can be accessed for free within the AUDIO section of the website: www.language-gym.com/listening
Please note that both The Language Gym and SentenceBuilders.com websites are ideal supplements to this booklet. Both websites recycle every single lexical and structural item found in this book many times over via self-marking vocabulary and reading workouts, in addition to engaging and fun games and a powerful verb trainer
