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Picture This! A Beginning ESL Teacher's Resource Book

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I highly recommend the Picture This ESL Resource book. I've used the materials to teach all levels and types of ESL, including high school Bilingual Special Ed and ESL for adult Latino baseball players. The pictures are cartoons, but not babyish, so they are suitable for all ages. The materials can be used as the core of a complete ESL curriculum, or unit by unit, to supplement as needed. I wish I had had them when I taught 7th grade Language Arts--they are truly a great resource for vocabulary building and spelling! This product is easy to use and fits well into any lesson plan. Well worth the money because you can literally use it all year.

As a Peace Corps volunteer part of my duties are to teach English to my community. I purchased this book because I have little background in teaching. I had hoped this book would give me meaningful guidance. It fell far short of this.

This book was designed with a very ethno-centric point of view. The pictures are of things most Americans would be familiar with but when I tried reviewing the pictures with some of the Thai people in my community they had no idea what the objects were in either language.

Most of the pictures are crude and get worse if you try to reproduce them. The entire idea of a book like this is to provide reproduceable study material, otherwise what is the point?

If you are in my situation, teaching to people outside of the U.S., Then this book is not for you.

This book is particularly helpful for the beginning ESL student in high school or even junior college. The pictures are clear, the activities are interesting and easily accomplished by students who are just becoming familiar with English. The use of pictures makes learning vocabulary much easier. The organization of the book into meaningful life units helps the student relate it to his life. I like the fact that the student learns to spell the words as they are learned. The simple sentences also help the student begin to write the language. If you are "at sea" and looking for a way to get started with beginning ESL, this well-organized book is a must for you.

I loved this book. It was very easy to start class with this book and it has good activities for the students to retain the information you are trying to teach them. It also gives great ideas on diagrams and lesson plans.

I am an ELL educator and have used this book with great success. THis book offers me a quick and simple way to create all the visual cue cards I need to help both my students and the regular classroom teachers. I have used this book to create communication cards for newcomers, labels for the classroom, and picture prompts for teachers to use while teaching. This was completely worth the money!!!!