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The Fluency Course 2022
Is finally available on Amazon
I can’t believe this day is finally here. After six(?) years of writing, testing, re-writing, and figuring out how to publish and sell it without driving ourselves and our staff crazy, the B versions of all our textbooks are now available on Amazon in their final form.
Incredibly, we’ve made a lot of improvements to this latest (final?) version. We added a dictation activity to the first year books, made a simple change to the second year writing practice that should make a big difference to student results, and transformed the third year textbook.
I think our current users are going to be very pleasantly surprised, and new ones will just think the books were this good from the beginning 😉
We use the B books from October with our students, so we’ll have all the free supplementary stuff up on the Fluency Course website before then.
We’re also hoping to have the final versions of the A books up on Amazon/our site by the end of the summer, at which point I’m going to take my writing partner for a nice meal and we’re going to take a week or so off.
Would be really grateful for any help you could give us with promoting the course, telling people about it, leaving Amazon reviews, etc.
Please let me know if you have any questions! For people buying the course for their students, I would be happy to jump on a Zoom call to answer your questions or run you through how we use the books.
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Academy curriculum junior high school materials publishing textbooks
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Fluency Course Website
Finally
We finally have a dedicated website for the Fluency Course materials. It’s very embrionic at the moment, but eventually will have digital samples from all the books, teacher guides, order forms, etc.
I will still post updates here and write about how we are running our Academy classes, etc. but for the latest information about the Fluency Course textbooks please go to our website.
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Fluency Course 2021 ed.
It has evolved again
I am once again here to explain how our materials are evolving without being able to provide a firm date you will be able to order them, prices, or any other useful information.
The good news is that the latest evolution has made them much more user-friendly and more commercially viable.
The bad news is that we are unlikely to have them ready for people to order before March.
As we discussed in September last year (September? Really? Feels like several years ago), we were able to consolidate the speaking cards into worksheets and thus remove a hugely time-consuming and expensive constraint. After using the worksheets for several months, I can happily say they are just as good as the index cards were, and much more user-friendly.
However, five textbooks per year, plus a bunch of extra things that would need to be downloaded/printed, was not ideal.
So now we have managed to consolidate the components even more, and will end up with the following for each level:
Fluency Course 1 (aimed at JHS 1st years or 2nd years)
Textbook 1a (units 1-24) 230 pages
Textbook 1b (units 25-48) 230 pages
Workbook 1 (units 1-48) 100 pages
All components are incorporated into the textbook now.
Fluency Course 2 (aimed at JHS 2nd years or 3rd years)
Textbook 2a (units 1-24) 200+ pages
Textbook 2b (units 25-48) 200+ pages
Workbook 2 (units 1-48) 100 pages
All components are incorporated into the textbook now.
Fluency Course 3 (aimed at JHS 3rd years or high school students)
Textbook 3a (units 1-24) 200+ pages
Textbook 3b (units 25-48) 200+ pages
All components are incorporated into the textbook now.
I know it has been a long wait, but the materials have definitely improved in the latest iteration so hopefully it will be worth it. There should be samples available this year, and some small orders may be possible.
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Textbook 1b and 2b
One Step Closer
Just got the prototypes back from the printer. A few small typos, but good enough for now!