Level Overview
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- Level Outline & Objectives
- Links to Units & Lessons
- Related Resources
Beginners 4 Overview
Beginners 4 Goals
These are the main goals of Beginners 4. You can download the Beginners 4 Paths to Fluency Tracker to help track students' progress towards these goals.
Beginners 4 Tips
1. Each unit at this level was designed for 1 week with about 3 hours of class time per week. If you have your students for less than 3 hours a week, you may want to consider doing a unit every two weeks. If students are picking up the material quickly and easily, you can try picking up the pace so that you make quicker progress through the level. Just remember the goal is fluency with the content. Learning the material well is better than getting through quickly and forgetting everything.
2. Review Phonics: You will want to spend some extra time reviewing all of the phonics sounds from Beginners 1-3. You can find sort through the phonics lessons and review tools here. You can also print off the phonics word family lists from Beginners 1-3 and pepper them into the Beginners 4 units so that students are constantly going back and reviewing the phonics sounds that are going to help them with reading, spelling and pronunciation.
3. Be-Verbs: Students learn which be-verbs go with which subject fairly quickly, but often struggle when it comes to the little details like: 1. Singular and Plural Nouns: It is a pencil. They are pencils. 2. Adjectives and Nouns: It is a pencil. It is blue. (no "a") 3. Plural subjects: The lion is big. The lions are big. 4. Questions: It is a lion. Is it a lion?
Students also struggle to come up with the right be-verb sometimes when they are speaking off the cuff. That is why you will want to make sure that you spend a lot of time just letting them make tons of be-verb sentences and questions.
4. Weak Readers: If your students need to work on reading and phonics, you will want to bring in some practice sheets from Beginners 1-3. Look for the word lists and reading passages for the phonics your students need work on.
Look for These Pages in Beginners 1-3
5. If your students are older (Grades 5-12), they can handle (and probably require) a quicker pace. Just make sure you are checking in regularly that students are hitting the main goals. Better to skip some units and spend more time on the ones you teach than try to do them all and have the students forget everything.
Beginners 4 Lesson Planning
Beginners 4 Overview
- Unit 1: Review Numbers 1-10, Pronouns, Be-Verbs Intro, Phonics Review
- Unit 2: School Supplies, a vs. an
- Unit 3: Family & More, Be-Verbs with Nouns
- Unit 4: Adjectives, Be-Verbs with Adjectives
- Unit 5: Places & Transportation, Be-Verbs with There
- Unit 6: Adjectives, Be-Verbs: Negatives
- Unit 7: Adjectives (cont), Be-Verbs: Questions with Adjectives
- Unit 8: Fruit, Be-Verbs: Questions with Nouns
- Unit 9: Food, Be-Verbs: Questions with "What color..."
- Unit 10: Clothes, Be-Verbs: Questions with "Where..."
- Unit 11: Animals, Demonstrative Pronouns (This, That, These, Those)
- Unit 12: Parts of the Body, Demonstratives in Questions
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