凯伦史密斯(Karen Smith)在加拿大出生并长大。大学毕业后开始游历世界,先后在五个国家工作和生活过。在伦敦生活期间,她获得TESOL(Teaching English toSpeakers of Other Languages)证书。后移居澳大利亚,在悉尼从事了六年的国际学生英语教学工作,期间加入澳大利亚国籍。后来她回到加拿大,在位于北极圈的育空地区担任一家教育机构的经理,给成人讲授英语阅读与写作。此前她还前往乌干达,担任长达八年的志愿者,从事英语教学,帮助当地妇女儿童接受教育。凯伦现居住于加西美丽的海滨城市维多利亚。她与HolybirdPublishing一直保持合作,为中国读者写作《Sight Words》、《O, Canada!》、《跟外教学小学英语》、《Smart Writing》等十多部图书。
目錄:
GRADE 1
LESSON 1 Naming Words.
LESSON 2 How Many?
LESSON 3 Capital Letters.
LESSON 4 Before A Noun.
LESSON 5 Action Words.
LESSON 6 Which Is It?
LESSON 7 Nouns And Verbs Together.
LESSON 8 Make A Sentence
LESSON 9 Make A Good Sentence.
LESSON 10 Ask A Question.
LESSON 11 Write How It Looks
LESSON 12 Write How They Feel
LESSON 13 Where Are The Others Like Me?
LESSON 14 Same Or Opposite
LESSON 15 What The Body Can Do
LESSON 16 Stretch A Sentence
LESSON 17 Write A Story
LESSON 18 Same or Different.
LESSON 19 Do Not Always Use My Name
LESSON 20 How Do We Say It?
LESSON 21 What Do You Have?
LESSON 22 Whose Is It?
LESSON 23 Whose Dress Is New?
LESSON 24 Make A Shorter Word
LESSON 25 Make A Longer Sentence.
LESSON 26 Answer The Question.
LESSON 27 Which Do You Choose?
LESSON 28 Or, And, Because.
LESSON 29 Wow !
LESSON 30 What Comes First?
LESSON 31 What Is This Story About?.
LESSON 32 How To Begin A Story.
LESSON 33 Write A Story.
LESSON 34 What Sentence Is First?
LESSON 35 What Sentence Is Last?
LESSON 36 A Story Has One Topic
LESSON 37 Make A List
LESSON 38 What I Do At School.
LESSON 39 How To Write On Two Lines.
LESSON 40 What Do You Think?
LESSON 41 Dogs Or Cats.
LESSON 42 Where Is It?
LESSON 43 What Can You See?.
LESSON 44 What Is Happening?
LESSON 45 Write About Now
LESSON 46 Write A Letter.
LESSON 47 Meet My Family
LESSON 48 My Best Friend.
LESSON 49 I Like Basketball Best.
LESSON 50 My Day At School.
GRADE 2
LESSON 1 Make An English Sentence.
LESSON 2 All About Letters
LESSON 3 Some Words Sound Alike
LESSON 4 My Family
LESSON 5 What Is Your Group?
LESSON 6 More Than One
LESSON 7 Special More Than One Words
LESSON 8 Is It Yours Or Mine?
LESSON 9 Every Day Actions.
LESSON 10 Talk About Yesterday
LESSON 11 Some Different Action Words.
LESSON 12 That Action Happened When?
LESSON 13 Tell Me More
LESSON 14 How Do You Do It?
LESSON 15 Who Did It?
LESSON 16 I Do It Myself.
LESSON 17 Two Words Make One Word
LESSON 18 Make A Short Sentence Long
LESSON 19 Make A Long Word Short
LESSON 20 Ask A Question
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LESSON 41 I Have A Story To Tell
LESSON 42 Take Away Some Ideas..
LESSON 43 How Does My Writing Look?
LESSON 44 Roll A Story.
LESSON 45 Which Do You Like More?
LESSON 46 What Do You Think About That?
LESSON 47 Why Do You Think That?
LESSON 48 Is That An Opinion Or A Fact?
LESSON 49 How To Write A Letter.
LESSON 50 An Opinion Letter.
GRADE 3
LESSON 1 My Sentence Has A Noun.
LESSON 2 Special Nouns
LESSON 3 My Sentence Has A Verb
LESSON 4 Helping Verbs
LESSON 5 Linking Verbs.
LESSON 6 Tomorrow Will Be Fun.
LESSON 7 Past, Present or Future
LESSON 8 I Know Another Word
LESSON 9 Same And Opposite
LESSON 10 How, When Or Where
LESSON 11 I Can Make An English Story
LESSON 12 Is There One Or More?
LESSON 13 What Have You Got?
LESSON 14 Joining Words.
LESSON 15 Joining Ideas
LESSON 16 When Did It Happen?
LESSON 17 Simple, Compound Or Complex
LESSON 18 What Is The Difference?
LESSON 19 Negative Or Positive?
LESSON 20 What Letters Are First?
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LESSON 40 Grouping Ideas Together.
LESSON 41 Writing A Topic Sentence
LESSON 42 Getting Ready To Write
LESSON 43 What Is In A Paragraph?
LESSON 44 Move To The Next Paragraph.
LESSON 45 The Last Paragraph
LESSON 46 Important or Interesting.
LESSON 47 Researching A Topic
LESSON 48 Writing Your Country Report
LESSON 49 Researching A Person.
LESSON 50 Write A Biography
GRADE 4
LESSON 1 What Are They Doing?
LESSON 2 What Was Happening Yesterday?
LESSON 3 What Is Happening Tomorrow?
LESSON 4 Describing The Five Senses
LESSON 5 Show Me, Dont Tell Me
LESSON 6 Interesting Words
LESSON 7 Compare And Contrast
LESSON 8 Some Writing Is Not Real.
LESSON 9 A Poem
LESSON 10 Emails
LESSON 11 A Book Report
LESSON 12 Tell How To Do Something
LESSON 13 Let Me Tell You What I Know.
LESSON 14 Making Paragraphs
LESSON 15 All About Me
LESSON 16 Tell A Story With Talking Words
LESSON 17 What Did You Say?
LESSON 18 Writing A Story
LESSON 19 Effect and Cause.
LESSON 20 Future Cause And Effect
LESSON 21 In My Opinion
LESSON 22 Make Your Reader Agree.
LESSON 23 How Does It End?
LESSON 24 Edit Your Writing
LESSON 25 Put It All Together.
GRADE 5
LESSON 1 Editing.
LESSON 2 If I Had A Million Dollars
LESSON 3 Show Your Character
LESSON 4 Create Interesting Characters.
LESSON 5 Show Your Senses.
LESSON 6 Describe A Setting.
LESSON 7 Tell A Story
LESSON 8 Famous People
LESSON 9 Let Me Tell You About Something.
LESSON 10 Interviewing
LESSON 11 My Interests
LESSON 12 You Should Watch This Movie.
LESSON 13 Funny Poems.
LESSON 14 Answer The Question
LESSON 15 What Is Your Opinion?
LESSON 16 Do You Agree?
LESSON 17 Compare and Contrast
LESSON 18 Cause And Effect
LESSON 19 Writing A Summary
GRADE 6
LESSON 1 Let Me Introduce Myself.
LESSON 2 Writing With Your Senses
LESSON 3 The Order Of Things
LESSON 4 How Do I Get There?
LESSON 5 The Main Idea
LESSON 6 Writing A Paragraph
LESSON 7 Parts Of An Essay
LESSON 8 Research A Topic
LESSON 9 Animal Adaptations.
LESSON 10 Vote For Me
LESSON 11 Make People Think Like You
LESSON 12 Problems And Solutions.
LESSON 13 How To Write A Story
LESSON 14 All About My Best Friend.
LESSON 15 All About The Setting.
LESSON 16 Writing Dialogue
LESSON 17 Conflict In Stories
LESSON 18 Choose Your Day
LESSON 19 Poems That Tell A Story
LESSON 20 How To Pass A Writing Test
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英文写作无捷径
近几年,Holybird Publishing 邀请一些专业而有经验的加拿大老师为中国学生编写了系列全英文版学习用书Common Core Standards Series(CCSS,通用核心标准系列)。目前与读者已经见面的有《Smart Reading》、《Smart Math》、《Smart Science》三套,每套按年级分为1-8 册。各分册学习内容与难度与美国及其他英语国家各年级的要求基本相当。该系列图书主要服务的读者对象是规划将来出国留学的中小学生,为他们将来的出国学习打下一定基础。图书上市后获得了较好的反响。该系列图书,主要有以下几个特点:
一是对应和参照美国现行学校教育体系中较为通用的使用标准(CCSS),由加拿大老师为中国学生特别编写。其编写依据和对象非常明晰,这样训练起来科学系统、更有针对性,一些国际学校或有所需要的学生可以直接用作训练教程。
二是其难度与西方英语国家各年级的水平接近,这样为中国孩子提供了一个初步检测标准,让他们了解自己的学科知识与英语水平接近哪个阶梯,有利于循序渐进地学习与提高。
三是给中国学生提供了一套西方学校的训练预案,将英语语言训练、学科知识学习与西方文化了解融为一体。无论从教学方式还是学习内容来讲,中西方学校教育有较大差别。通过这套书的训练,孩子们对西方课堂的学习内容有些初步认识,为今后身临其境地在西方课堂学习做个过渡、打下基础。
英语写作,尤其是学术英语写作(academic writing),是中国留学生普遍感到头疼的事,在国外网站经常可以看到代改作业或论文的广告。针对这一问题,Holybird 继《SmartReading》、《Smart Math》、《Smart Science》之后,新推出了这套帮助中国孩子训练英文写作的《Smart Writing》,全套六册,由加拿大老师编写。作者写作时参照了西方学校各年级写作教学的要求与训练。如果与外国人打过更多交道,会发现他们做事严谨性并讲求逻辑,这或许离不开他们
从小接受的训练。英语写作也如此,中国孩子们如果在学习英语的过程中增强这方面的训练意识,多加练习,相信也能更好地用英文进行多方面、多层次的书面表达。
《Smart Writing》全套书从一年级的基础训练入手,从单词拼写、标点使用、句子构成,到段落完善;从单一话题到各种文体的写作训练,作者试图从点到面、从单一到多样化地引导学生一步步了解英语写作的要求与行文方法,最终独立完成更高层次的写作、应对各种考试的写作任务,如托幅、雅思、SAT 等。对于书中的各项训练任务,作者还提供了参考答案,供学生参考使用。
本书适合小学高年级及中学生使用,由于各种原因,书中难免出现一些缺点或错误,敬请批评指正!
Holybird Publishing, For the Well-trained Mind
Edward Liu
Editor-in-chief
Holybird Education & Publishing
Victoria, Canada