<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><I><B><I>Side by Side</I></B></I> has helped over 25 million students worldwide persist and succeed as language learners. Now, in this special edition for adult learners in standards-based programs, <B><I>Side by Side Plus</I></B> builds students' general language proficiency and prepares them for their life-skill roles in the community, family, school, and at work. Easy-to-use teacher support materials include hundreds of multilevel activities and a wealth of supplemental worksheets, achievement tests, and other resources to assure learner persistence and success.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Outstanding Features:</B></P> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Picture dictionary lessons</B> introduce unit vocabulary in a clear, easy-to-use format.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">The program's <B>guided conversation methodology</B> integrates grammar, vocabulary, and topics through real-life communication practice that is student-centered, interactive, and fun.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Standards-based lessons</B> in each unit develop the competencies included in CASAS, BEST Plus, EFF, SCANS, Model Standards, and other major curriculum frameworks and assessment systems.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Teamwork, critical thinking, and community tasks</B> promote cooperative learning, problem-solving, and civics connections.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Diverse reading and writing activities</B> include realia, narrative readings, and journal-writing to develop skills for daily life, self-expression, and academic advancement.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Built-in assessment</B> in each unit includes a check-up test and vocabulary and skill checklists enabling students to assess their progress.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><B><I>Side by Side</I></B> <B>Gazette magazine sections</B> promote learner persistence through high-interest material that students can use in class or on their own, building a bridge between the classroom and the home.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">A <B>Bonus Gazette Audio CD</B> included with the text offers entertaining radio program-style recordings of Gazette activities.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">An <B>all-in-one teacher support package</B> includes a <I>Teacher's Guide with Multilevel Activity & Achievement Test Book and CD-ROM</I> providing multilevel activities and an array of reproducible masters, worksheets, and tests.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">An <B>Activity & Test Prep Workbook</B> offers all-skills practice, GrammarRaps, and unit achievement tests.</DIV></LI></UL>