Materials+Evaluation+for+ELL+Students

= = Great Materials for Promoting ELL Readers

If you have any questions, you can evaluate your ESL materials with this rubric: media type="custom" key="6455731"
 * = Basal Reader [[image:treasures.jpg align="center"]] ||= Literature [[image:Nutik.jpg width="127" height="127" align="center"]] ||= Non-Fiction [[image:Wolves.jpg width="127" height="127" align="center"]] ||
 * < Bear, D.R., Dole, J.A., Echevarria, J., Hasbrouck, J.E., Paris, S.G., Shanahan, T., Tinajero, J.V. (2008). //Treasures: A Reading/Language Arts Program//. Washington, D.C.: MacMillan/McGraw Hill. ||< George, Jean Craighead. (2001). //Nutik & Amaroq Play Ball//. New York, New York: Harper Collins Publishers. ||< Ling, Mary. (1991). //Eyewitness Juniors: Amazing Wolves Dogs & Foxes//. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ||
 * < **Rating: ** 30 pts/APP ||< **Rating: ** 30 pts/APP ||< **Rating: ** 30 pts /APP ||
 * < **Recommended Use:** The reader I chose was written for 2nd grade. However, it could be used for any level ELL learner who needs material at this level. The vocabulary is given at the beginning of the section and then integrated into a mini-story before the main story so that the reader can be introduced to the words beforehand. The illustrations go with the story and the vocabulary words are highlighted each time they are used. This is the reader that I use in my class and the teacher's manual gives other ideas and materials to use with ELL students. ||< **Recommended Use:** I think this book is appropriate for 1st - 2nd grade ELL students. It is a continuation of a story that is in the basal reader //Treasures// so there would be some previous knowledge of the story and vocabulary. Even as a stand alone book, the illustrations help the story along and the vocabulary is appropriate for the age. It is also an interesting story that the students would enjoy. Most would connect with it because they have their own pets. I would use this with my students in conjunction with the basal. ||< <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Recommended Use**: This book would also be appropriate for 2nd grade ELL students. It could be used as an extension to a lesson or part of a cross - curriculum lesson. I would also use it to help develop language. Each piece of information in the book has an illustration (both photographs and drawings) to go along with it to help connect the words to previous knowledge. Not only does this make it informative, but also interesting to the reader. ||