"A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades." <[email protected]> on Sunday, September 10, 2006 at 11:25 AM -0500 wrote: >any suggestions for students that do not speak english at all?
Hi! I would contact any adult literacy centers in your area and ask them if they would be willing to share materials with you. Juli Kendall has published, through Stenhouse, two excellent books on teaching ESL students. I haven't taught ESL to a beginner in a number of years, and never to a beginning middle school kid, but as I remember Longman and BBC have good potential textbooks. Generally speaking, their listening comprehension will be stronger than their speaking which will be stronger than their reading which will be stronger than their writing. You can work that to your advantage in the very early days by doing what's called "Total Physical Response: - teaching them a series of commands such as "Stand up. Sit down. Walk. Stop. Walk to..." and more. You can hang pictures and vocabulary words around the room and have them walk to them, eventually tell you who is standing by what pictures, and use that as a multisensory way to teach them basic vocabulary. Feel free to contact me off list if you have additional questions. Take care, Bill Ivey Stoneleigh-Burnham School _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org.
