Native Speakers - The Bookcase
(Native Speaker students should NOT be using EFL materials)



  • Name of book: The Write Direction
  • Name of author: Lindamichelle Baron
  • Name of Publisher: Modern Curriculum Press (Pearson Education)
  • Date Published: 1999
  • Ministry Approval: On Raquelle Azran's list of books for Native Speakers
  • Target population: Native Speakers, grades 3,4,5 (USA)
  • Is there a teachers' guide? YES
  • Are there additional teachers' aids or materials? YES
  • Is there a pupils' workbook? YES
  • Ordering details: Through your regular ELT bookseller. For more information and a brochure, Contact: Richard Steinitz, London Publishers Agency, P.O. Box 1791, Ramat Hasharon 47117, Tel: 09-955-6161, Fax: 09-954-1585, E-mail: LPA@inter.net.il
  • Description: Finally, there is a comprehensive instructional writing program that features fully integrated, completely correlated grammar, usage, mechanics and spelling components. As different from other writing programs as day is from night, The Write Direction delivers totla support for you and your students, including complete- and short-process writing experiences, models of student and published writing, a Writer's Handbook built into each student book, and much more.



  • Name of book: MC Comics – The Action Files
  • Name of author:
  • Name of Publisher: Modern Curriculum Press (Pearson Education)
  • Date Published: 1999
  • Ministry Approval: On Raquelle Azran's list of books for Native Speakers
  • Target population: Native Speakers, grades,4 and up (USA)
  • Is there a teachers' guide? YES
  • Are there additional teachers' aids or materials? Yes
  • Is there a pupils' workbook? No
  • Ordering details: Through your regular ELT bookseller. For more information and a brochure, Contact: Richard Steinitz, London Publishers Agency, P.O. Box 1791, Ramat Hasharon 47117, Tel: 09-955-6161, Fax: 09-954-1585, E-mail: LPA@inter.net.il
  • Description: Want to get your reluctant readers reading and writing? Looking for high-interest reading material for your NS students? Introduce them to MC Comics, action packed stories told in comic-book format that will draw them right into the reading process. Accessible and inviting, comics are gaining recognition among educators for their ability to engage and motivate reluctant readers. Now, with skills-based MC Comics, you can use this powerful medium as an effective teaching tool in your classroom.



  • Name of book: Scribes Online - Learning in an Electronic Writing Space
  • Name of author: John Ost, Barbara Schulz
  • Name of Publisher: Beaumont Publishing (London) Ltd.
  • Date Published: 1999
  • Ministry Aproval: Not necessary
  • Target population: 4 - 6th grade - Native Speakers
  • Is there a teachers' guide? Yes - It is more than a simple teachers guide to using the book in the classroom. It also serves as a pedagogical explanation of the issues involved.
  • Are there additional teachers aids or materials? Web site - http://www.beaumont-publishing.co.uk/books/scribes
  • Is there a pupils workbook? No
  • Ordering details: http://www.beaumont-publishing.co.uk/shop.htm
  • DescriptionAn introduction to the magic of teaching inside an electronic writing space. Integrating the Internet into the curriculum and especially into the writing process. Helping to use the Internet to extend the writing process to other content areas as you also teach writing across the curriculum.

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