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ACTIVATE Language — Newcomers

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What is it?

ACTIVATE Language launches students into academic learning by building and advancing foundational English language skills. Grounded in best practices for multilingual learners, this curriculum "activates" the instructional models proven to be most effective. Supportive strategies in the student text, paired with the PictureThis! Word-to-Word Dictionary, provide the word-level access emergent bilinguals need to connect prior knowledge, accelerate language growth, and transfer learning as they develop English proficiency.

Available 2027
ACTIVATE Language — Newcomers preview
Students using ACTIVATE Language resources

Classroom Impact

How can this help in the classroom?

Finding resources that ramp up emerging multilingual students' agency and independence in their language acquisition journey is a challenge that The PictureThis! ACTIVATE Language — Newcomers resource helps overcome. Having easily accessible, grade-band appropriate resources and tools that expand newcomer students' language experiences along their language-learning continuum is key to building agency and confidence.

Provide multilingual learners of English, including Newcomer students and those having limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE),
with opportunities for increasing interactions, practicing strategies, and participating in engaging activities to accelerate vocabulary acquisition and academic language use.

Four Levels

PictureThis! ACTIVATE Language — Newcomer is available in 4 levels:

Primary
Intermediate
Secondary
Adult

Each ACTIVATE Language — Newcomers Set includes:

  • 10 Student Editions
  • 10 PictureThis! Dictionaries
  • 1 ACTIVATE Language Teacher Edition

List Price: $624

School Price: $499

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