The new edition of the highly popular Backpack series now gives teachers and students even more! As well as the clear methodology and structure, the real sense of progress in both accuracy AND fluency, the cross curricular connections in both the Students Books and the FREE Content Readers that have all contributed to making Backpack a winning course, Backpack Gold offers: New illustrations and music New value lessons incorporated into every unit New larger format posters and picture cards New Phonics and Writing handbooks in levels 1-3, Grammar handbooks in levels 4-6 New Test Generator software in addition to the most complete testing and self assessment packageBackpack is the proven seven-level course for young learners of English that offers a communicative program based on cross-curricular content and task-based activities. The new edition of Backpack incorporates the latest trends and up-to-the-minute technology. Features of the new edition:

Teaches learners to speak English through social practice. Incorporates a strong values strand in the Student Books. Has a stronger focus on grammar and writing skills: new Sound and Spelling sections in the Student Books and Workbooks. a writing and a grammar section in every Student Book. Read about co-authors Mario Herrera and Diane Pinkley and download Podcasts of the authors talking about teaching techniques. Click here to read an interview with Mario Herrera. Find inspiring ideas for your primary classroom, discover new techniques and solutions that work, connect with other primary teachers, and share your own stories and creativity. Register now for your free Teacher Primary Pack! Using the Interactive Whiteboard The Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) feature may be used in a number of different ways. It allows the teacher to focus on particular aspects of each lesson as needed in order to review, warm up, present, reinforce, apply, or assess learning.

Not only does use of the IWB improve students' motivation in general, it appeals to multiple learning styles and helps students process information in different modalities. Below are several examples of ways to use the IWB. Level: Backpack Level 1 First Day of Class Level: Backpack Level 2raychel backpack From Morning to Nightlc2 backpack Level: Backpack Level 3backpack pvp texture pack Friends Old and Newsly 2way backpack Level: Backpack Level 4 Level: Backpack Level 5 Level: Backpack Level 6 Character Trait / Main Idea KWL / Idea Web Story Sequence / Story Element Venn Diagram / T-chart Professional Development for Primary Teachers

The world’s leading ELT experts provide powerful online professional development. Internationally recognized First TESL/TEFL Certificate from the ELT Institute, Hunter College, City University of New York after successfully finishing four modules. Interactive instruction using video, audio, and text. Classroom video segments show practical application of methodology. Easy-to-use course management tools. Appropriate for self-study or for instructor-led groups. You can find more information on the Teacher Development Interactive websiteYoung Learners will succeed with Backpack Gold! Reach into Backpack Gold for a richly illustrated, seven-level communicative-course that motivates primary learners and supports teachers. Backpack Gold is packed with child-friendly topics, catchy songs and chants, stickers, games, stories, hands-on projects, extensive reading and writing materials and TPR activities. All new music helps students engage with songs

New values curriculum teaches citizenship and strengthens the home-school connection New Picture Dictionary (Starter), Sound and Spelling Handbooks (levels 1-3) and Grammar and Writing Handbooks (Levels 4-6) in the Students Books and Workbooks provide support and practice New Assessment Package offers teachers’ tips, techniques, tests and a test generator Updated Interactive Whiteboard Software engages students and helps sustain motivation Authors: Mario Herrera, Diane PinkleyEnter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Why is ISBN important? Due Date: May 26, 2017 99 used & new from There is a newer edition of this item: Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing (5th Edition)

Prep whenever you want. Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing (4th Edition) X. J. Kennedy , after graduation from Seton Hall and Columbia, became a journalist second class in the Navy (“Actually, I was pretty eighth class”). His poems, some published in the New Yorker, were first collected in Nude Descending a Staircase (1961). Since then he has written six more collections, several widely adopted literature and writing textbooks, and seventeen books for children, including two novels. He has taught at Michigan, North Carolina (Greensboro), California (Irvine), Wellesley, Tufts, and Leeds. Cited in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations and reprinted in some 200 anthologies, his verse has brought him a Guggenheim fellowship, a Lamont Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, an Aiken-Taylor prize, the Robert Frost Medal of the Poetry Society of America, and the Award for Poetry for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English.

He now lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he and his wife Dorothy have collaborated on four books and five children.   Dana Gioia is a poet, critic, and teacher.  Born in Los Angeles of Italian and Mexican ancestry, he attended Stanford and Harvard before taking a detour into business. After years of writing and reading late in the evenings after work, he quit a corporate vice presidency to write. He has published four collections of poetry, Daily Horoscope (1986), The Gods of Winter (1991), Interrogations at Noon (2001), which won the American Book Award, and Pity the Beautiful (2012); and three critical volumes, including Can Poetry Matter? (1992), an influential study of poetry’s place in contemporary America. Gioia has taught at Johns Hopkins, Sarah Lawrence, Wesleyan (Connecticut), Mercer, and Colorado College. From 2003-2009 he served as the Chairman of the National Endowments for the Arts. At the NEA he created the largest literary programs in federal history, including Shakespeare in American Communities and Poetry Out Loud, the national high school poetry recitation contest.

He also led the campaign to restore active literary reading by creating The Big Read, which helped reverse a quarter century of decline in U.S. reading. He is currently the Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture at the University of Southern California. with these editor's picks from Kindle. Series: Fourth Edition (Book 4)4 edition (July 25, 2011) 5.5 x 1.4 x 8.3 inches Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds #18,087 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) in Books > Reference > Words, Language & Grammar > Rhetoric in Books > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Movements & Periods in Books > Textbooks > Humanities > Literature 5 star53%4 star22%3 star16%2 star4%1 star5%See all verified purchase reviewsTop Customer ReviewsFrom a Homeschooling Perspective|Love the stories|used it for class this semester|Good variety of stories and poems|Great book filled with basic college English Knowledge|easy to understand|Probably the best text book|good book!