Pockets

Mario Herrera and Barbara Hojel

Prekindergarten - Kindergarten

Pockets
is a new three-level English course for preschool students. It develops English language and psychomotor/conceptual skills through hands-on, fun activities, and equips children for continued success in learning English. Appealing animal mascots, dynamic songs and chants, stickers, home/school activities, and videos motivate students and help them build confidence in communicating in English.

Pockets' spiraled themes grow with the developing child, drawing on the child's growing knowledge of the world.

Features
  • Children confidently learn English through conversations, songs and chants, punch-out or cut-out activities, stickers, and videos. Key and expansion vocabulary items are recycled in a picture dictionary.
  • Sound, five-step pedagogy (Warm Up, Presentation, Practice, Application, and Assessment) provides a proven and reliable foundation for learning and lesson planning.
  • Age-appropriate fun practice activities carefully develop the motor and prereading/prewriting skills children need to succeed in their late preschool and early primary studies.
  • Home-school connections featuring Tell-a-Story books, take-home Audio CD and homework instructions for parents consolidate children's learning and motivate them to share their new skills with their families.



Components
  • Interleaved Teacher's Editions contain complete lesson plans in an easy-to-teach format, with content connections and bulletin board ideas that provide inspiration for creative unit expansion.
  • Workbook Audio CD contains songs and chants for school or home.
  • Video program consolidates and recycles language, and offers expansion activities.
  • Classroom Poster Sets consolidate children's mastery of vocabulary.
  • Workbooks provide additional practice and optional pre-reading activities.
  • Audio Program contains newly created, appealing songs, chants and conversations.
  • Picture Cards offer additional practice.