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Ventures is a six-level, four-skills series that helps students develop the skills needed to be college and career ready, and function successfully in their community.
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A wide range of resources provides confidence to busy educators.
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Teacher's Edition
The interleaved Teacher's Edition includes easy-to-follow lesson plans for every unit.
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Teaching tips address common problem areas for students and additional suggestions for expansion activities and building community.
Additional practice material across all Ventures components is clearly organized in the More Ventures chart at the end of each lesson.
Help students improve digital literacy by utilizing their own technology to enhance their learning. Ventures has an array of digital resources that encourage students to use technology to advance their learning in and out of the classroom.
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QR Codes for Audio and Video Ventures puts audio and video resources in your hands. With QR codes on the page, you and your students can access class audio and animated grammar videos on any mobile device
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Online Workbook Self-grading Online Workbook with instant feedback helps learners understand their problem areas. Teachers can track time-on-task and check students’ progress with just a few clicks.
Ventures Arcade The Ventures Arcade is a free website where students can find additional practice and prepare for the Citizenship exam.
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Allow your students to expand their learning in class or remotely with Kahoot! quizzes built for Ventures. A quiz based on listening and grammar is available for every unit.
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Ventures Online Teacher Resources offer hundreds of additional worksheets and classroom materials.
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Career and Educational Pathways Worksheets Help students meet their post-exit employment goals
Collaborative Worksheets Written for each lesson, these worksheets help develop cooperative learning and community building within the classroom
Writing Worksheets Help literacy-level students recognize shapes and write letters and numbers. Alphabet and number cards promote partner and group work
Picture Dictionary Flashcards and Worksheets These tools reinforce vocabulary learned throughout the series.
Multilevel Worksheets that are designed for use in multilevel classrooms and in classes where the proficiency level of students differs
Self-assessments Support learner persistence and give students an opportunity to reflect on their learning to help them determine whether they are ready for the unit test
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Project Unit projects extend students' learning into real-world context. They work within the unit topic, but they also go beyond the Student's Book.
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(Basic, Level 1 and 2)
Presentation Plus allows you to share the Student's Book pages along with all the resources, such as audio and video, in a face-to-face or remote classrooms.
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Audio & Video Hotspots
Answer Key
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Click on the Answer Key icon to display the answers for your students to see.
Simply click the QR code to play audio and the Grammar Presentation videos.
Provides all the resources needed in one place, to digitally transform Ventures into a truly interactive classroom.
There are a variety of tools such as pens, highlighters, spotlight to focus on certain activities, and attachments to help enhance your teaching.
Complete with a Facilitator Guide and Worksheets, this series of videos is perfect for beginning to mid-career teachers. Videos follow real teachers putting their best practices to work in real classrooms.
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See how Ventures helps students meet their employment and Higher Education goals.
Help Students Meet their Employment and Higher Education Goals
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Each unit of the Student's Book features six skill-focused lessons.
Our lesson sequencing is key to student success.
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Focuses students on the unit topic using visuals to assess student’s prior knowledge and serves as prompt for key vocabulary.
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[ Lesson A ]
Audio accessed using QR codes for use in class or independent review
Presents grammar point in a chart form, followed by exercises to check comprehension and provide guided practice. Communicate exercises guide learners as they generate original answers and conversations.
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Grammar Presentation videos to watch on mobile devices using QR codes allow for self-directed learning and develop digital literacy
Additional activities ensure students have the chance to practice more grammar to meet the rigor of CCR standards
Develops reading skills and expands vocabulary while bringing text complexity into the classroom to help students read independently and proficiently. Lesson combines reading with writing and listening practice for an integrated approach to ensure better comprehension.
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B+C
College and Career Readiness Worksheets extends each Reading lesson with additional reading, critical thinking and academic vocabulary building.
Provides practice with process writing within the context of the unit. Before you write exercises provide warm-up activities to activate the language needed for the writing assignment, followed by one or more exercises that provide a model for students to follow when they write. A Writing tip presents information about punctuation or paragraph organization directly related to the writing assignment. The Write exercise sets goals for the student writing. In the After you write exercise, students share with a partner.
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Purposeful writing practice helps students meet the challenges of work and the classroom.
Easy-to-follow tips help students avoid common mistakes, improving their confidence.
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Brings the unit together with opportunities to review lesson content while practicing skimming to read real-life documents, developing test-taking skills, and building critical thinking and soft-skills.
[ Lesson F ]
Practice explicit real-life skills using authentic document types builds document literacy.
Prepares students for standardized tests by familiarizing them with bubble answer format.
Covers critical thinking and soft skills, crucial for workplace readiness, and helps students meet WIOA requirements through problem-solving activities.
Grammar connections contrasts grammar points and includes guided practice and communicative activities.
Recycle and reinforce the listening, vocabulary, and grammar skills developed in the two prior units and include a pronunciation activity.
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Brings the unit together with opportunities to review lesson content.
Life-skills reading develops the scanning and skimming skills used with documents such as forms, charts, and schedules.
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