The discussion on The Adult English Language Acquisition Discussion List (englishlanguage@nifl.gov)is on serving preliterate English Language Learners. The book, Making It Real, was recommended. It is free to download. I took a look at it and it is full of the basic strategies to use with low level learners. It was created by Literacy NOW (literacynow.org) in Washington State Click on the link below and it will download as a pdf file.
If you are looking for cheap ways to provide training, take a look at this book and see if it could be used as one of the handouts in your ELL volunteer training workshop. Download the book.
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Making it Real: Teaching Pre-literate Adult Refugee Students
Alysan Croydon. 2005, 108 p. FREE!
Recently, refugee families have been arriving from Somalia, Liberia, Sudan, Ethiopia, and Thailand to begin their new lives in communities across Washington State. Many of the adults have never had an opportunity to attend school, so they are not literate in their first language. Some have never lived in homes with electricity and plumbing or towns with buses and shopping malls. As a result, they face many challenges during their resettlement process. As they enter beginning level ESL classes, their teachers, too, are finding the task of teaching them challenging.
With funding from the Refugee and Immigrant Assistance Section, the Tacoma Community House Training Project has developed this book containing a wealth of successful strategies and techniques for teaching both beginning literacy and speaking skills. The richly illustrated text includes:
A list of survival competencies for speaking, listening, reading, and writing
A plethora of activities for introducing, practicing, and applying these new skills to the students’ lives
Strategies for teaching pre-literate refugees in a multi-level ESL class
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