[aisle] English Language Development fiction for high school?

[Sara Bell]

I have found our ELD struggle with finding subject area texts at low
reading levels. They are constantly looking for non-fiction items for older
students at primary reading levels.
We have been using many National Geographic leveled readers.

Good luck!

On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 2:16 PM Lala Lala via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I am meeting with a teacher tomorrow who teaches ELD, English Language
> Development. His students speak a language other than English at home, and
> his class is an intervention class designed to build academic English
> skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking, in order for students
> to have academic success in all of their classes.
>
> He has asked for this:
>
> "I would like to initiate a conversation with you about my ELD students.
> I teach Advanced ELD here at the high school and have about 50 students who
> are at this level. Most are reluctant readers, have 0-5 books in their
> household, and find a Lexile level of 880 challenging.
>
>
> I want my students to develop a habit of reading books of their choice,
> outside of the classroom, and I am looking for suggestions.
>
>
> I look forward to hearing from you regarding how you see the library
> helping out with this.  Thank you kindly for your time and help!
>
>
> Can anyone on this list give me *advice on how I can best support his
> students*? Even suggesting titles would be helpful, but there is more to
> this and I could use some advice!
>
>
> Thank you,
> Lori
>
>
> --
> Lori McGreal
>
>
> MAILMAN_MIMEDEFANG
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