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If a picture is worth a thousand words, think what you can do with an ESL novel that has 300 full-color illustrations!

The New Boy is Lost! is more than a dramatic story with a picture for every sentence. It's a "novel approach" to systematic language acquisition.

Survival skills, problem-solving skills, and themes of courage, persistence, and multicultural cooperation are woven throughout this dramatic novel based on a real-life story.

ESL students of all ages will identify with a 12-year-old new arrival who worries about making friends and learning English in an American school. Taro meets Ramon, Jae Han, Lee, and Susan, but no one speaks his language. After school, Taro takes the wrong bus home and gets lost. He knows only five words of English, and that his new home is near a big white gas station. A rainstorm, and then the dark of night add difficulty. Parents, students, and the police conduct a city-wide search for Taro, fearing the worst.

For your entry-level students, The New Boy is Lost! is a 15-week ESL program. Beginners (even pre-literate students) will easily follow the story through the pictures. While students are focusing on "what happens next?" they will be learning greetings, introductions, street safety, and 500 basic words for family members, colors, numbers, time, weather, transportation, clothing, school subjects, emotions, descriptive adjectives, and action verbs.

For your high beginner and intermediate students, The New Boy is Lost! is a reader that stimulates cathartic conversations about their own personal experiences when they entered the United States. Students will make culture and language comparisons, interview each other, and be guided to library research and creative writing activities. Grammar through discovery is supported through short sentences with simple, natural language patterns in the text. Students write their own picture stories of their trip to the United States and their first days here. They'll have the language and models to be successful, and can "publish" their books for classmates to read.

Advanced students can study the elements of a novel in The New Boy is Lost!: character, conflict, theme, plot, setting, foreshadowing, values, suspense, complications, scene shifting, climax, and resolution. You'll find much for them to grow on--whether it's writing their first book report, writing the script for a drama to act out, or creating their own sequel.

70 pages.

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The New Boy is Lost! Audio Cassette or CD

A dramatic reading of the novel by the author with sound effects and music. The audio provides an additional language model and saves the teacher's voice.

35 minutes.

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The New Boy is Lost! Teacher's Guide and Activities Kit

A multitude of teaching opportunities are subtly embedded in the novel, The New Boy is Lost! and you won't want to miss them. With the Teacher's Guide, the "picture-novel" turns into an entire English program. There are chapter-by-chapter tips for the development of themes, language-extension exercises and question banks at three levels. Forty-five reproducible black-line masters help you use the novel with pre-literate and beginning students, allow you to evaluate students' listening and comprehension skills and begin guided writing. The Teacher's Guide includes activities for cooperative learning, creative writing projects, literature discussions, research, and much more.

96 pages.

What educators are saying about The New Boy is Lost! :

"I couldn't put it down!" Ellen Menassa, ESL Teacher, Ridgewood, NJ

"The kids loved the book! I use it every year and the students write their our own books after that. It's really great that they can write to an author and you answer them." Debbie Dewees, North Brunswick Middle School, NJ

"...thoroughly delightful, relevant to the ESL students' lives, and a wonderful textbook...it successfully combines theory with practice...easily adapted to the multilevel classrooms in which most ESL teachers work." JoAnn Robisheaux, Ph.D., Dept. of Teacher Education, Southeastern Louisiana University.

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