Overview

Skill Sharpeners, Third Edition, by Judy DeFilippo and Charles Skidmore, is a four-level series especially designed for students whose skills in English require strengthening. By introducing basic skills tied to classroom subjects in a simple grammatical framework, the series helps to prepare these students for academic success. The Skill Sharpeners series bridges the gap between English Language Learning and regular school subjects. With all students, it reinforces confidence and self-esteem. Each level of the series offers exercises to sharpen both language and subject-area skills. Students interpret graphs and charts, read maps, solve math word problems, and learn library and study skills. They sharpen comprehension skills as they read about history, science, and American culture. And they deepen their understanding of basic English structure. Lessons cover skills required on most middle school state-competency tests. The Third Edition of Skill Sharpeners preserves all the features of the earlier edition and updates content. A favorite with teachers nationwide, Skill Sharpeners remains dedicated to helping students sharpen their skills in all facets of English communication.Features *Higher-order thinking skills and writing. *Survival skills necessary for coping with a new environment. *Abundance of content area reading and writing activities. *Comprehensive review of language structures. *Self-contained lessons. *Test-taking strategies.

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Author:   Judy DeFilippo ,  Charles Skidmore
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson Education (US)
Edition:   3rd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 27.60cm
Weight:   0.270kg
ISBN:  

9780131929937

ISBN 10:   0131929933
Pages:   120
Publication Date:   24 June 2004
Audience:   ELT/ESL ,  ELT General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

UNIT 1 Likes and Dislikes Completing Forms (Reading a driver's license, completing identification forms, reading dates) Questions and Answers (Reviewing basic grammar, vocabulary, and sentence structure) Match the Columns (Building vocabulary, classifying) Meet the Garza Family (Reviewing present form of to be, present progressive, forming questions) What's for Lunch? (Present tense, third person singular: likes/doesn't like) What Do You Like? (Reviewing simple present tense, asking/answering questions with do/does ... like/like to) Fannee Doolee's Secret (Classifying, deductive thinking) A Chat (Reading for details, sequencing) Reading a Graph (Interpreting a bar graph) What's Wrong? (Reviewing the present progressive, writing a paragraph from a picture) Helping You Study: the Table of Contents (Using a Table of Contents, interpreting chapter titles) Dear Dot (Reading comprehension, understanding words through context, making judgments) UNIT 2 Careers and Activities What Do They Do? (Reviewing the simple present tense, building vocabulary) What Do You Want to Be? (Present tense, want(s) to) What's Their Job? (Using like(s) to, want(s) to, has/have to, reading for details, writing a paragraph) What's Their Job? (Identifying topics, building vocabulary, drawing conclusions, writing a paragraph) What, Where, and Why? (Reviewing the present progressive tense) Present or Present Progressive? (Contrasting the present tenses) Helping You Study: Alphabetical Order (1) (Alphabetizing by first and second letters) Helping You Study: Alphabetical Order (2) (Alphabetizing) Dear Dot (Reading comprehension, understanding words through context, making judgments) UNIT 3 Always, Sometimes, Never A Day in the Life of Ernest (Interpreting a chart, understanding adverbs of frequency, third-person singular present tense) Odd Man Out (Classifying, using adverbs of frequency) Life in a Fire Station (Identifying main idea and details, understanding adverbs of frequency) Depositing a Check (Reading a check, understanding bank procedures) Opening a Savings Account (Learning about savings accounts, understanding entries in a statement) A Student Survey (Interpreting a chart, using adverbs of frequency) Is That a Fact? (Distinguishing between fact and opinion) Have or Has? (Present forms of to have, reading for details) Helping You Study: Using the Dictionary (1) (Approximating the location of a word in the dictionary) Dear Dot (Reading comprehension, understanding words through context, making judgments) UNIT 4 Busy Lives Dr. Schwartz's Schedule (Third-person singular, simple present tense, asking questions) Things People Do (Constructing third-person singular present tense: -s, -es) How They Live: Two Stories (Constructing the present tense, choosing the correct form) Writing About a Job (Third-person singular present tense: -s, -es, -ies, identifying main idea) Whose Is It? (Using possessive nouns and adjectives) Being a 911 Operator (Learning about the 911, reading for details) Do, Does, Don't, Doesn't (Simple present tense with do/does) Families (Identifying topics, understanding characters' feelings) A Future Job (Learning about job openings and salaries in the United States, adding to find a total, subtracting to find a difference) What Are They Doing? (Drawing conclusions, reviewing the present progressive tense, building vocabulary) Helping You Study: Using the Dictionary (2) (Using guide words) Dear Dot (Reading comprehension, understanding words through context, making judgments, writing a letter) UNIT 5 Making Plans and Solving Problems Vacation Plans (Future form: be going to, reading travel ads, asking/answering questions, writing a paragraph) The Festival of Las Fallas (Identifying main idea and details) Choose the Right Word (Using prepositions) What Are They Going to Do? (Making predictions, creative problem solving) In, On, Under (Using prepositional phrases, classifying) A Good Friend (Identifying main idea and details, making inferences, sequencing) Helping You Study: Alphabetical Order (3) (Listing people alphabetically by last names) Dear Dot (Reading comprehension, understanding words through context, making judgments, writing a letter) UNIT 6 Yesterday and Long Ago Only Joking (Understanding riddles) The Simple Past Tense (Forming past tense of regular verbs, writing sentences) What Did They Do? (Forming simple past tense, pronunciation of final -ed) How Does It Sound? (Simple past tense, distinguishing among the three sounds of -ed) Adding -ed (Forming simple past tense, observing spelling changes) A Time Line (Interpreting and charting a time line) It's a Record! (Reading comprehension, building vocabulary, using simple past tense) Helping You Study: Using the Encyclopedia (Selecting the correct encyclopedia volume, alphabetizing) When Did It Happen? (Interpreting a time line, sequencing) Dear Dot (Reading comprehension, understanding words through context, making judgments, writing a letter) UNIT 7 Yesterday and Today Irregular Past Tense (Using irregular past tense verbs, writing sentences) What's the Problem? (Solving mathematical word problems) The Present and Past of to be (Present tense of to be, comparing uses of the present and past tense) Sally Ride (Reading a chart, asking questions) An Unlucky Day (Using the simple past and past progressive tenses) Tina's Terrible Trip (Using the simple past and past progressive tenses) Susan B. Anthony: Fighting for People's Rights (Reading a biography, making inferences, learning test-taking skills) Feelings (Interpreting characters' feelings, building vocabulary) Dear Dot (Reading comprehension, understanding words through context, making judgments, writing a letter) UNIT 8 People and Places Armando's Week (Interpreting a school schedule) Helen Keller (Reading a biography, building vocabulary, understanding regular and irregular past tense) Combining Sentences (Combining sentences with and, but, and so) In the Library (Building vocabulary, learning about library resources) Don Roberts, Delivery Man (Reviewing past tense, telling a story from picture cues, writing a paragraph) Choose the Verb Form (Comparing uses of verb tenses: simple present and past, present and past progressive, and future (going to)) Helping You Study: Alphabetical Order (4) (Alphabetizing book titles) Jesse James, a Famous Outlaw (Reading a biography, building vocabulary, distinguishing between fact and opinion) Dear Dot (Reading comprehension, understanding words through context, making judgments, writing a letter) UNIT 9 Agree and Disagree Commands (Recognizing imperatives, drawing conclusions) Opposites (Recognizing opposites, learning test-taking skills) How Does It Work? (Reading a technical article, interpreting a diagram, making inferences, sequencing) I Disagree! (Recognizing opposites, building vocabulary) Helping You Study: Using the Card Catalog (Locating card catalog entries) Emergency! (Following directions, using imperatives, understanding words through context) Which One is Correct? (Reviewing simple present tense, using adjective clauses with who and that) Dear Dot (Reading comprehension, understanding words through context, making judgments, writing a letter) UNIT 10 Reading Maps, Following Directions The Fifty States (Reading for detail, distinguishing between fact and opinion, completing true/false/? statements) A Map of the United States (Interpreting a political map, categorizing, learning/writing about a state) The United States: a Geography Lesson (Identifying main idea and details, interpreting a topographic map) Travels with Charley (Reading for details, making inferences, learning test-taking skills) Street Directions (Reading a city map, following and writing street directions) Helping You Study: What Kind of Book? (Understanding library classification) What Were They Doing? (Using the past progressive tense, drawing conclusions) Dear Dot (Reading comprehension, understanding words through context, making judgments, writing a letter) UNIT 11 Our Country and Climate What's the Weather? (Reading a weather map, using Fahrenheit temperatures, reviewing weather vocabulary) What's the Temperature? (Reading and computing Fahrenheit temperatures) Thomas Paine (Reading a biography, reading for detail, making inferences, learning test-taking skills) The United States Government (Reading comprehension, building vocabulary, identifying main idea and details, choosing the appropriate definition) Helping You Study: Using an Index (Using a book index) Places and People (Using who clauses, building vocabulary) Find the Ending (Reading comprehension, understanding adjective clauses with who, where, what) Dear Dot (Reading comprehension, understanding words through context, making judgments, writing a letter) Vocabulary Review End of Book Tests Completing Familiar Structures Writing Questions Reading Comprehension Index of Language Objectives

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Judy DeFilippo is a coordinator of ESL in the Intensive English program at Northeastern University. She is author of Lifeskills 1 and 2 and Lifeskills and Citizenship, and is co-author of Grammar Plus, all published by Longman. Charles Skidmore is an ESL teacher at the secondary level in the Boston, Massachusetts, schools and at Boston University's CELOP program. He is co-author of In Good Company, published by Addison-Wesley.

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