Shared Book Features • enrich concept themes and language used in the ELF Readers • provide support for teaching reading • language patterns are matched to the related ELF books • function as a set of progressive stand-alone books for instruction, learning to read or for enrichment • provide a variety of layouts designed to enhance picture-to-text relationship, interest and ease of learning The text and features of each book are clearly outlined and include: • the text itself; • discourse structure; • syntactic pattern; • interest words; and • basic words. Back to ELF main page. | | |