Wow! Stories from Real Life: A Low-Beginning, Multi-Skills Text

Unlikely heroes, life-saving children, small-world reunions . . . this dynamic multi-skills text unfolds heart-warming true stories and an abundance of exercises skillfully designed to give your low beginners all the practice they need.

Adapted, field-tested, and carefully selected from over 5,000 news articles and personal experiences, these stories are written at a low-beginning level. Each believe-it-or-not story taps into students' own experiences, hopes, fears, and dreams via a unique and flexible array of exercises, featuring:
Many more activities than you'll find in most books.
Flexible exercises that allow students to work individually, in pairs, or in groups--and at their own levels.
About Me activities that enable even low-beginners to recall, talk, and write about their own experiences.
Progressive Cloze a fun, highly engaging way to learn vocabulary, grammar, spelling, and punctuation--and students can do it on their own!

Each of the 8 units offers a true story and a bundle of exercises proven to engage students for approximately 5 hours.

In the tradition of the author's acclaimed Zero Prep resources--aimed at making teachers' lives easier and more effective--this book offers terrific teaching routines that require little or no preparation time from the teacher. Just follow the teaching notes step-by-step and instantly see your classroom transform. Once you try this book, you too will say, 'Wow!'

UNITS
Unit 1: Eduardo Saves a Home
Unit 2: The 75-Year Friendship
Unit 3: Maria Finds a Friend
Unit 4: Lost and Found
Unit 5: Meeting the New Neighbor
Unit 6: The Translator
Unit 7: Living in the Library
Unit 8: Alex and Beth

Website: altaesl.com/wow