Spark!
words and pictures for activating English

Key features :

• a Wordbank linked to Workbooks provides the comprehensible input that beginners really need
• can be used for mixed ages, mixed abilities, ESL, beginning literacy, and special needs students
• gives clear and systematic scaffolding
• provides an open and inviting layout, which is clearly signposted and easy for students to navigate
• links communicative tasks with literacy and numeracy
• moves from everyday language and concepts to curriculum needs
• provides clearly focussed instructional language
• recycles previous work to build students' awareness of overall language networks
• assists beginning students to revise, consolidate and look forward
• gives teachers a core of 30-60 lessons for each Workbook
• builds a strong foundation for teachers to take their students' learning to the next stage
• gives parents a clearer idea about their children's pathways and how to help
• supports curriculum outcomes for K-6, STLD, ESL Scales, ESL curriculum
  framework, CSWE, and British Adult ESOL core curriculum.
• lIt works!