Page | 65 • Online Listening Passages. Develop listening skills and connect the theme to students’ identities and experiences. • Respond to Media /Video. Students interact by responding to comprehension and discussion questions about engaging, authentic videos. Students evaluate media by activating their prior knowledge and predicting. • Authentic Short Film. Students learn to view media through a critical lens. 14. Provide grammar and vocabulary instruction. • Grammar Instruction. Each unit presents two grammar points and provides explicit grammar, usage, and writing instruction. • Animated Grammar Tutorials. These tutorials help students understand and review grammar rules and explanations. They engage students by pairing grammar rules with fun explanations to encourage communication, practice, and reinforcement. • Key Academic Vocabulary. Helps students comprehend and discuss text across di7erent subject areas. • Academic Vocabulary and Discussion Starters. Provide additional supports. 15. Provide audio, video, and written examples for modeling. • Book Club Video. This video provides a model of students engaged in an academic discussion of the reading selection. • A Video Chat. This video allows students to react to the introductory video along with a virtual student. • Audio Recording. Students follow along with an audio recording of the text as a model for pronunciation and fluency. • Authentic Short Film. Students learn to view media through a critical lens. • Student Writing Model. This material introduces students to a variety of writing styles. • Book Club Discussion. This activity encourages students to express their own evidence-based ideas about the text. • Pair and Group Work. Activities in groups or pairs designed to encourage communication and provide opportunities for the development of listening and presentation skills. • Independent, Partner, and Small Group Communication. These activities provide students with multiple opportunities to communicate their learning before, during, and after reading by sharing their ideas in small groups, with partners, and independently. • Book Club Video. Students view fellow students in a Book Club video that models academic discourse about the task. This prompts metacognition as students follow with their own discussion.
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