Language School

Basic Series Language ArtsPhonics

Basic Series

The Basic Series is designed for students learning English for the first time. It includes five textbooks:

	ABC Starter, Phonics 1 and 2 Beginner students learn alphabet recognition and writing practice in ABC Starter. Phonics 1 and Phonics 2 introduce beginning sounds and word families.			Get Ready 1 and 2 Get Ready provides beginner students with essential language for daily communication.

Language Arts

The language arts textbooks include vocabulary, sentence patterns, daily English, songs or chants, conversations, activities, writing, and reading practice in the form of short paragraphs or stories depending on the level. The language arts textbooks may also include phonics pages and practice pages.

	Way To Go This fourteen-level series includes student books, workbooks, test booklets and the supplementary Grammar Practice.			Big Steps Meet Chevady, Cody and their friends in this fun, six-level program for young learners.

Other language arts series include:

• Happy Chat: Happy Chat includes Basic 1-4, Intermediate 1-4,and Advanced 1-4.
• GEPT: This series helps students to prepare for the General English Proficiency Test (GEPT).
• Ready to Learn, Ready to Read, Ready to Talk: Coming soon!
• Moving On: Coming soon!
• Focus: Coming soon!
• Excel: Coming soon!

Phonics

Textbooks in the phonics series include letter names, letters and sounds, short vowels, word families, sight words, long vowels, blends, digraphs, R-controlled vowels, diphthongs and other rules and patterns.

The phonics textbooks introduce the rules with corresponding vocabulary and short phrases to help students practice decoding and improve their reading ability.

The upper-level phonics textbooks also cover syllables, intonation and phonetic transcription.

	Phonics The seven levels in Phonics include sight word recognition, blends, digraphs and syllables.			Sound It Out Sound It Out 1-7 present phonetic concepts. Sound It Out 8-10 introduce the KK phonetic symbols.
	Spot-On KK Phonetics The symbols of the KK phonetic system are presented with regular reading practice.			Stepping Stones Combining language arts and phonics, Stepping Stones helps students develop the necessary skills to ease the transition to elementary school English.