Foundations is an all-skills, standards-based program for beginning-literacy and low-beginning learners of English. The teacher's guide offers step-by- step teaching strategies, multilevel expansion activities, and hundreds of reproducible CD-ROM files containing activity masters, tests, evidence-based reading instruction activities, and worksheets.

Foundations is an all-skills, standards-based program for beginning-literacy and low-beginning learners of English. The teacher's guide offers step-by- step teaching strategies, multilevel expansion activities, and hundreds of reproducible CD-ROM files containing activity masters, tests, evidence-based reading instruction activities, and worksheets.

Essential vocabulary and relevant life skill topics -- Listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities, along with cross-cultural discussions and community learning tasks, provide a comprehensive, all-skills foundation.-- Emphasizes active learning, linking language instruction to lots of interaction and physical activity.-- A perfect stepping stone to Express Ways, Side by Side, and other core series (pp. 10-13).