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    This document provides strategies for adapting textbooks for ESL students. It recommends pre-teaching vocabulary words and key concepts, providing study guides and outlines, highlighting important information in different colors, and recording audio versions of textbook lessons. It also suggests using supplemental motivating materials like magazines, biographies and travel brochures. When selecting textbooks, it advises choosing ones that are colorful, self-explanatory and include additional learning materials like software and audio. Non-readers can be included through guided reading activities, dividing into small groups for reading aloud, and using cooperative learning groups.

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    This document provides strategies for adapting textbooks for ESL students. It recommends pre-teaching vocabulary words and key concepts, providing study guides and outlines, highlighting important information in different colors, and recording audio versions of textbook lessons. It also suggests using supplemental motivating materials like magazines, biographies and travel brochures. When selecting textbooks, it advises choosing ones that are colorful, self-explanatory and include additional learning materials like software and audio. Non-readers can be included through guided reading activities, dividing into small groups for reading aloud, and using cooperative learning groups.

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    This document provides strategies for adapting textbooks for ESL students. It recommends pre-teaching vocabulary words and key concepts, providing study guides and outlines, highlighting important information in different colors, and recording audio versions of textbook lessons. It also suggests using supplemental motivating materials like magazines, biographies and travel brochures. When selecting textbooks, it advises choosing ones that are colorful, self-explanatory and include additional learning materials like software and audio. Non-readers can be included through guided reading activities, dividing into small groups for reading aloud, and using cooperative learning groups.

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    Selecting & Adapting a Textbook For ESL Students

    OCSD

    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

    Previewing and Preteaching 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

    (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

    (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

    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

    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

    Materials to Motivate Readers


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

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

    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

    Thank-you !

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