Pearson Longman ESL February 2010 Newsletter
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Penguin Active Readers
Using Penguin Active Reading in the Classroom: Free Resources for Teachers
Tara MaceyakMarketing Manager

Penguin Active Reading is an exciting series that provides reading and language learning through full-color, beautifully illustrated readers. Each month Pearson Longman will be bringing you a featured reader along with free teaching resources from our Penguin titles. This month's Penguin Active Reader is Romeo and Juliet. Learn more about Penguin Active Readers and download free classroom resources.
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John Brezinsky
Why Aren't You Using Writing Journals?
John Brezinsky, Higher Education Marketing Manager

Writing journals can greatly improve students' writing fluency and help students become better readers, without adding more than a few minutes to your workload. This article describes why you should use journals, offers tips for getting started, and includes a free podcast.
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Sarah Lynn
Getting That New Vocabulary to Stick
Sarah Lynn

Research says that to learn a new word a person needs to encounter it at least six times, and up to as many as 20. Students need to encounter a new word in multiple contexts. To use the word, they also need to attend to how the word sounds, how it is written, its usage, and what it means. For teachers, this means we need to present and recycle new vocabulary in a variety of meaningful and distinctive ways.
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John Ade


Introducing a Classroom Resource Every Teacher Should Have
John Ade, K-12 Marketing Director

How many times have you wished you could clone yourself so that you could help all your content-area colleagues address the needs of English learners in their classrooms? Well, until science fiction becomes reality, Pearson Longman has a much more practical solution. It's called Every Teacher’s Toolkit, a classroom resource that no Math, Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts teacher in grades 6-12 should be without.
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John Brezinsky
Celebrate National Grammar Day with Pearson Longman
John Brezinsky, KHigher Education Marketing Manager

March 4 is National Grammar Day! To celebrate, we are collecting grammar resources (podcasts, activities, articles, and more) from all over Pearson Longman and putting them on a special page in our new website.

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Kelsey Miller
"I'd Like to Order an Aubergine Parmigiana, Please"
Kelsey P. Miller, 
Senior Marketing Manager, Americas, Pearson Language Tests

At a recent meeting of the Pearson employees responsible for developing and delivering the Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academic), employees from around the world met to exchange ideas and strategies. In one of the lighter moments of the meeting, an interesting topic arose: how simple differences in language can lead to a handful of confusion.
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