Book Description:\nRaindrops English Class - 1 : Raindrops English Readers ... bring together an impressive array of writers and an enticing diversity of subject-matter that must surely appeal to all who read them. \n\nThis enriched and revised edition of RAINDROPS is designed to meet the language needs of today's learners and teachers. The series has carefully chosen and graded content, with classic and modern texts that cover a range of themes, genres and nationalities.\n• A picture dictionary in Books 1 and 2 begins each lesson to aid reading.\n• The Get Started pages in Books 3-8 give interactive introductions to lessons to engage learners and initiate learning.\n• The picture stories in Books A, B and the comic strips in Books 1-5 will help kindle children's interest in reading as well as hold their attention.\n• Talk About It in Books 3-5 will guide teachers to reinforce comprehension of texts.\n• A variety of reading skills and sub-skills are covered through comprehension exercises. \n• The Fun Time activities with poems in Books 3-5 are tagged to multiple intelligences.\n• Learner-centered tasks for spelling, punctuation, pronunciation and dictionary use encourage autonomous learning.\n• The grammar worksheets in Books 3-8 focus on language in communication and teach grammar through listening, speaking and writing.\n