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Number of levels: 4

Authors: Rebecca Lee Williams

[Bandera American English]

[Portadas de los 4 niveles: Nursery y niveles 1 a 3]

Gumdrops is an exciting, comprehensive, four-level preschool series that incorporates the most recent methodologies that have proven to be effective in English Language Teaching. It provides students with positive early childhood experiences in a wide range of relevant contexts. Gumdrops gives children an opportunity to learn a second language at a very young age through fun and motivating child-centered activities.

Key Features:

• Observes the natural stages of language learning: Preproduction, Early Production and Speech Emergence.

• Helps students develop six crucial areas of learning: Personal, Social and Emotional Development; Communication, Language and Literacy; Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy; Knowledge of the World; Artistic Development and Physical Development.

• Gives students multiple exposure to each new lexical group through fun and focused vocabulary practice.

• Gumdrops Nursery and Gumdrops 1 feature fun Apps for children to play and learn everywhere they go.

• Gumdrops 2 and 3 feature an Interactive CD-ROM with engaging extension activities.

Nursery Level Components:

Students and Teachers

• Student’s Book with teacher’s notes

• Class Audio CD

• App for iPad, iPhone and Android

[imágenes: Página 7 y página 8 de Nursery. Gomita del nivel con globo de texto diciendo: Age-appropriate pop-out activities to foster the development of fine motor skills.]

[imagen de una actividad de la App nursery. Gomita diciendo: Fun activities to

review and practice numbers and colors.]

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Gumdrops 1 to 3 Components

Students

• Student’s Book

• Stickers

• Activity Pad

• Finger puppets

• Mini-flashcards

• Student’s Audio

• App for iPad, iPhone and Android (Level 1)

• Interactive CD-ROM (Levels 2 and 3)

Teachers

• Teacher’s Guide

• Class Audio

• Posters

• Cutouts

• Stick Puppets

• Big Books

• Teacher’s Resource CD-ROM

• Classroom Language Cards

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[Página 43 del nivel 3. Gomita diciendo: Unit Openers are a reproduction

of the poster that facilitates the presentation of new vocabulary and activates prior knowledge of the theme.]

[Página 13 del nivel 1 y página 49 del nivel 2. Gomita diciendo: The Student’s Book contains activities that teach language and vocabulary, while developing essential skills appropriate to the age, such as sticking, gluing, tracing, coloring, matching, classifying, counting and making patterns.]

[imagen de una actividad de la App nivel 1. Gomita del nivel 1 diciendo: Apps with activities related to Gumdrops Level 1 that foster children’s psychomotor development as well as reading and listening skills.]

[imagen de una actividad del interactive CD del nivel 2 y del 3. Gomitas del nivel 2 y 3 diciendo: Interactive CD-ROMS with fun games that can be used to reinforce students’ vocabulary.]

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[Poner página 71 del nivel 3. Gomita diciendo: Theme-related values

pages per unit to help students learn and develop important character traits.]

[Poner página 18 del nivel 3. Gomita diciendo: Each unit ends with a page to review the vocabulary and language presented in the unit.]

[Poner página 78 del nivel 1. Gomita diciendo: There are six pages of appealing

holiday-related activities to be used at appropriate times throughout the year.]

[Página de stickers del nivel 1 (la que sea). Gomita diciendo:

Each unit is accompanied by two pages of colorful stickers designed to develop readiness skills and serve as motivational rewards.]

[Página finger puppets del nivel 2 (la que sea). Gomita diciendo: There is one finger puppet for each unit that can be used to focus students’ attention while working

with the unit opener, the Student’s Book and the Big Book.]

[Página de mini-flashcards, del nivel 1, la que sea. Gomita diciendo: There are two pages of vibrant mini-flashcards for each unit to present, practice and review vocabulary. Students use them to create their own Picture Dictionary at the end of each unit.]

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[página 41 del Activity Pad 1. Gomita diciendo: The Activity Pad contains detachable pages that provide extra hands-on practice for developing essential readiness skills and concepts such as drawing, coloring, finger-painting and assembling. Gumdrops Level 1 features pop-out activities appropriate to students’ age and motor skills.

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