Unique to Side by Side Plus
Career and Academic Readiness
New 'blue pages' develop basic career and academic readiness skills aligned with CCRS standards.
Language Arts lessons offer guided discourse practice in academic communication. Students learn to 'talk the talk' of the mainstream classroom.
Readings about school subjects, work, and life skills build academic and career readiness while developing reading comprehension skills.
Writing activities offer systematic instruction in the writing process: Pre-Writing, Organizing Ideas, Writing a First Draft, Revising, Proofreading, and Peer Conferencing.
Life Skills and Test Prep
Each unit’s 'yellow pages' prepare students to succeed using English for life skills and on assessments.
- Real-life conversation practice and teamwork activities promote interactive learning.
- Authentic reading and writing tasks offer real-life literacy practice.
- Check-up tests and skills checks enable students to assess their levels of achievement.
Measure performance and motivate learners
Students can see how they are improving through chapter tests and skills checks in the Student Book. They can prepare for standardized English tests with the Test Prep Workbook. You can assess student achievement through placement, unit, mid-level, and final exams.
Teach off the page
Just open the book and teach. It’s that simple to use. No need for lots of preparation. The course is designed to be easy to use, so that you can maximize your teaching time. The light tone and humorous illustrations make it fun for you to teach and for students to learn from. Extensive photographs provide clear contexts and support vocabulary learning.
It's all about the student
The student-centered methodology and the course’s ease of use enable students to study outside of class. The magazine-style Gazette sections reinforce classroom instruction through high-interest feature articles and other activities that encourage learners to study on their own.
Get students talking quickly
The conversational approach gets your students, even beginners, communicating quickly. The guided conversations and structured dialogs encourage students to use their initiative and communicate among themselves, recycling language in each lesson.
Build a classroom community
Teamwork, critical thinking, and community activities promote cooperative learning, problem solving, and civics connections.
Keep your students learning
Lots of additional practice in the Student Book, Activity Workbook, Test Prep Workbook, Multilevel Activity Book, and the new eText provides a wealth of additional activities to reinforce and extend students learning.
What's new?
Side by Side goes Digital
The new eText – with digital audio and FunZone – expands the course and makes it flexible and fun for students to practice on their own.
eText
The eText is a digital version of the Student Book that serves as the student’s virtual speaking-practice companion.
Flip the lesson plan by assigning conversation practice for students to complete outside of the classroom, so you can concentrate on other activities, such as games, discussion, brainstorming, and role-playing in class.
Notes and Bookmark tools enable students to customize their digital learning experience with the eText.
FunZone
Welcome to the eText FunZone - a digital amusement park with attractions for every unit. Activities, games, videos, music, and animations offer your students fun and motivating reinforcement of each unit’s objectives.
- solve Crossword Puzzles using the innovative puzzle engine
- test your strength at the Vocabulary, Grammar, Reading, and Life Skill challenges
- visit ToonTown for animation-based grammar activities
- visit the Game Gallery to play Quiz Show, Concentration, and other games
- stop by the Picture Booth for Flashcards practice and Picture/Word activities
- don’t miss the music and videos at the ShowTime stage (levels 1 and 2 only)
