Analysis of the Coursebook My world 5º Grade ( Miss CHECK THIS, PLEASE)

 

Importance	Criterion	Is or Not?	Comment
7	Objetives explicity laid out in an introduction, and implemented in the material.	Yes	Objetives are very clear at the beginning of the book and every unit has a description about the objectives that we want to reach.
7	Approach educationally and socially acceptable.	Yes
7	Clear attractive layout; print easy to read.	Yes	The book was made for 5º grade and it is very attractive for children because we can find many activities with pictures; language is very basic and easy to understand what students have to do.
7	Appropriate visual materials available.	Yes
6	Interesting topics and tasks.	Yes	All the topics in this book is very interesting, because the contents are related to our life.
6	Varied topics and tasks, so as to provide for different learner levels, learning styles, interests, etc.	Yes	The book has many topics and tasks very interesting, levels of learning  students can achieve and develop competencies.
7	Clear instructions	Yes	The activities are very clear for students in 5º grade
6	Systematic coverage of syllabus.	Yes
7	Content clearly organized and graded (sequenced by difficulty).	Yes	The book in general is organized and clear.
4	Periodic review and test sections.	No	At the end Every unit has a short review about the contents, that is not enough for our students.
7	Plenty of authentic language.	Yes
0	Good pronunciation explanation and practice.	No	The book does not have activities related to a pronuntiation,
7	Good  vocabulary explanation and practice.	Yes	the book is very rich in learning new vocabulary and we can find this in every unit
5	Good grammar presentation and practice.	Yes	Grammar in this book is very simple, it needs more language focus.
5	Fluency practice in all four skills.	Yes	The book just works with these skills reading, writing and listening, but in speaking the book is very poor, I would like to add more activities using the production of the language, we also have to consider this book has been made for 5 º grade.
5	Encourages learners to develop own learning strategies and to become independent in their learning.	Yes	The book has a lot of readings, so we can you the knowledge to skimming the text and then scanning,
6	Adequate guidance for the teacher; not too heavy preparation load.	Yes	The book is very helpful for English teacher,
7	Audio cassettes.	Yes	The book has incorporated a CD, so students can work it at home.
0	Readily available locally.	No

Coursebook: 5º grade my world. Gabriella lazzeri and steve marsland. 2007

In general terms the book is very attractive and helpful  for learners, because every unit develops four skills reading, writing, listening and conversation. The coursebook has a cd to complement the work at home and it is too easy to follow the activities with the cd. Some Activities need to be more focus in develop conversation because I found it too poor in development this skill, but we have to consider that in reading  and listening, the book has been made many activities related to  before reading, while and after reading, and this occurs in listening too. The contents are organized in a clear way for teachers and students, because the book has organized the contents with a logical sequence, we begin using colours, numbers, greetings to develop brief description about thing that you see in a picture or gives basic personal opinions. This book is very adequate for 5º grade.