2024 KIDS STARTER SPECIFICATIONS

Remember   Kids St  is  for students who are attending 5th grade with no or very little  knowledge of English

o	TODAY STARTER       U. 1 to 8  (Students’ Book & Activity Book)

o	THE SKATEBOARDER (Quick Starter Dominoes – OUP) 

We strongly recommend you deal with the units in the following order: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 6. In this way, students will have seen Present Simple before they start with the new reader The Skateboarder.  	

OPTIONAL: Magazine, Culture Today and Story Corner sections.
                        Songs and Raps

Students’ Book: all the units have a very useful revision section. Even-numbered units include a Communication section which includes speaking and writing activities. The book includes 2 CDs, which should always be used.

Note: We don’t use the book with access to MyEnglishLab but you are free to use it. 

Writing:  There are plenty of writing activities both in the Students’ and the Activity book. 
                 See 2024 Types of Writing for Kids.  

Activity Book: for every section of the Students’ book there are exercises with three levels of difficulty. You can select which to give your students according to their needs.

For further grammar practice we recommend Grammar Friends 1 by Tim Ward and 
                                                                        Round Up 1 by Virginia Evans.

Teacher’s Book: We strongly recommend the use of the Teacher's Book, which will guide you throughout the course. It contains the course contents, step-by-step teaching notes for every lesson in the book together with all the student’s book pages minimized, Activity Book answer key and audio scripts. There is a DVD at the back of the book with all the videos included in the course. They are really very useful.

Reader: We suggest you start reading THE SKATEBOARDER after having seen Unit 7 and while you are dealing with Unit 8. 

 You may wish to consult www.pearsonELT.com/today