Meet Carly and Kumar two twenty something students working part time and trying to get through life’s little problems with a smile. You’ll smile you’ll laugh and want to keep reading about the lovely and sometimes thoughtless Carly and her handsome and ever patient boyfriend Kumar. These books are designed for an extensive reading experience, the stories give the students the opportunity to read for pleasure and develop reading and language fluency.
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•The ‘Carly and Kumar’ short stories have been written at three levels so that every student in a class can enjoy reading a story at the appropriate level.
•‘New words’ are defined at the bottom of each page to allow for ‘effortless’ reading.
•An audio CD also comes with the Level 1 book, to support less confident readers.
Carly and Kumar Bk 2 Pre-Intermediate
AU$22.00Price
- What does each Carly and Kumar book contain?
Table of Contents
Introduction
Meet the two main Characters
The stories
•A conversation on the bus.
•Studying with Kumar.
•Shopping for apples.
•A very very bad dream.
•Finding a housemate.
•Finding a share house.
•A share house conversation.
•Shopping with Carly.
•A surprise visitor.
•A driving test.
•Questions.
As each book has covers the same topics, you can use all 3 readers simultaneously.
These short stories can be used to introduce an extensive reading approach to encourage reading for pleasure. An extensive reading approach could include:
•30 minutes/week sustained silent reading, each student reading at their own level, pace and a story/stories of their own choice
•reading a story aloud to students
•shadowed reading by teacher or higher level student with a lower level student
•practising and performing plays within a class or for other classes
•pairwork/group/class discussion about the illustrations and questions
•modelling how to read for meaning
•rereading stories or reading the same story at a different level
•listening before, while or after reading using the audio CD (Level 1)
•outside of class reading
•The stories are about familiar and relevant topics