Japanese Primary Sentence Builders is a workbook aimed at younger learners (7 to 11 years old), co-authored by six modern languages educators with extensive classroom experience, both in the UK and internationally; including over 20 years of experience in primary contexts.
This ‘no-frills’ book contains 10 units of work on very popular themes, jampacked with graded vocabulary-building, reading, translation, retrieval practice
and writing activities. Key vocabulary, lexical patterns and structures are
recycled and interleaved throughout.
Each unit includes:
• a sentence builder modelling the target constructions, introduced by
questions to guide communication;
• a set of Listening-As-Modelling activities to train decoding skills, sound
awareness, speech-segmentation, lexical-retrieval and parsing skills;
• a set of reading tasks focusing on both the meaning and structural levels
of the text;
• a set of translation tasks aimed at consolidation through retrieval
practice;
• a set of writing tasks targeting essential micro-skills such as spelling,
lexical retrieval, syntax, editing and communication of meaning.
Based on the E.P.I. principle that learners learn best from comprehensible and
highly patterned input flooded with the target linguistic features, the authors have
carefully designed each and every text and activity to enable the student to
process and produce each item many times over.
The audio tracks for all listening activities can be accessed for free within
the AUDIO section of the Language Gym website.
The SentenceBuilders.com website is an ideal supplement to this booklet. It recycles all the content via engaging, self-marking listening, reading and writing activities based on the Conti, EPI teaching approach.