(coming soon)
What is it?
This curriculum resource helps initiate students’ academic learning by enhancing and advancing beginning English language skills. The application of best practices for emerging multilingual students "activates" the models that have proven to work best. With supportive strategies, The PictureThis! Word-to-Word Dictionary alongside the student text in Activate Language - Newcomers is the word-based level needed by emergent bilinguals to connect, accelerate, and transfer their base of knowledge as they learn English.
Available 2026
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.
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Provide multilingual learners of English, including Newcomer students and those students 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.
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
