Selecting & Adapting a Textbook For ESL Students

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Selecting Adapting a Textbook For ESL Students

• OCSD

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Modifying a Textbook

• Pre-teach and preview the material
• Outline the required text
• List vocabulary words and definitions
• Provide a checklist of required assignments/due
  dates
• Provide a study guide
• Provide audio-tape of the material

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Previewing and Pre-teaching Strategies

• Preview bold-faced print and italicized words,
  headings, and subheadings with students
• Furnish a weekly list of vocabulary and
  bold-faced words to the students in advance
• Use the words in sentences directly related to
  the context of the chapter

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(Cont.)

• Generate chapter vocabulary lists from textbooks
• Include chapter title and page number
• Offer vocabulary lists to students and support
  teachers
• Provide a list of discussion questions with page
  number location clues

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(Cont.)

• Provide an outline of main ideas and vocabulary
  words for each unit
• Provide a pad of Post-It notes the student jots
  down notes, words and questions and applies the
  notes directly to the textbook

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Color-Coding Ideas

• Purchase several textbooks for the purpose of
  highlighting information
• Color code the student textbook
• For example, use yellow for vocabulary words,
  blue for definitions, and green to highlight
  topic sentences

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Audio Taping

• Record the lesson allow student to listen to
  tape with small group or peer tutor
• Color code text to accompany the audiocassette.
  Highlight important information that student is
  expected to know

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Materials to Motivate Readers

• Sports Page
• Magazines, Newspapers
• Biographies
• Computer Aided Materials and WebQuests
• Travel Brochures
• How-to-Books

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Selecting Textbooks

• Attractive and Colorful
• Self-Explanatory
• Self-Correcting
• Reusable Workbooks
• Has Educational Software Audio-Tapes
• Lots of Pictures, Charts, Graphs

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Including Non-Readers

• Use Guided Reading to read text aloud
• Divide students into two groups with one group
  doing something else while you read aloud to the
  other
• Group students into cooperative groups and have
  them read aloud to each other

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Thank-you !