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7/30/2019 ESL Reading Material
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By Nell Novara
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Textbook
ESL readersBlogs
NewsLiterature
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Superficial Understanding
(newspapers, common lit) Imaginative Understanding (literature)
Precise Understanding (both)
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Benefits:
Practical vocabularyCommon grammar
structureCultural information
Current events
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What to look for?
Topical
Thought provoking
Avoid anything too polarizing
Avoid satire (at lower levels)
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CNN
The Guardian
BBC
See list in textbook
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Pre-article questions
What is your countrys view of ____ ?
Is _____ a problem in your country?
What is your personal opinion of _____ ?
Pre-article vocabulary definition
Read article
Post-article vocabulary
Post-article discussion
Do you agree with this article?
What would most people in your country agree/disagree with in this
article?
Does this change your earlier opinion?
ALWAYS encourage text specificity!!!!
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Racism/Media power
Gun control
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/07/george-zimmerman-sues-nbc-trayvonhttp://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/27/time-to-face-facts-on-gun-control/http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/27/time-to-face-facts-on-gun-control/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/07/george-zimmerman-sues-nbc-trayvon7/30/2019 ESL Reading Material
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Problems with using literature
Incorrect grammar
Outdated words
Styles can be confusing (stream of consciousness,etc.)
EXAMPLE: Gertrude Stein, Buttons
Benefits
Sense of achievement
Easy cultural lesson
Fun!
http://www.bartleby.com/140/1.htmlhttp://www.bartleby.com/140/1.html7/30/2019 ESL Reading Material
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Examples:Harry Potter, Twilight, The Hunger Games, fairy
tales, translated texts
Things to look out for:
- Technicality is IMPORTANT, students may overlook
words and grammar because they already know the story
- Are they actually reading?- Can they summarize and paraphrase for you?
- Are they defining new words?
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DO choose something with relatively easy vocabulary DO choose short pieces, and if longer, break up
assignments
DO choose pieces with universal themes
DONT choose anything that requires a great deal ofhistorical context this is not a history lesson
DONT choose anything too obscure- students may want
to do further research on the piece, and they quite enjoy
working with canonical authors
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Differences between a regular literature course and anESL course
Define general themes/plot
Pre-story vocab definition
Define characters if necessary
Provide guided questions
Post-Reading
Vocab work
Summarizing
Pre-story vocab definition Define characters if necessary
Provide guided questions
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Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings
http://ebookbrowse.com/happy-endings-by-margaret-
atwood-pdf-d107082835
Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
http://ebookbrowse.com/happy-endings-by-margaret-atwood-pdf-d107082835http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.htmlhttp://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.htmlhttp://ebookbrowse.com/happy-endings-by-margaret-atwood-pdf-d1070828357/30/2019 ESL Reading Material
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Can we teach poetry?
Pros
Creative
Vocabulary practice
Familiar themes
Cons
Structure
Confusing
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What to look for
Common themes
SIMPLE vocabularyShorter poems work best
Relatively common grammatical
structure
Rhyme?
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Functions more like a regular literature
lesson
Vocabulary
Read through (silently, then aloud)
Examine meaning
Discuss views and opinionsDiscuss figurative language (common
similes, metaphors, etc.)
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William Carlos Williams, This is Just to Say
Langston Hughes, A Dream Deferred
Shel Silverstein, Whatif
Emily Dickinson, Faith is a fine Invention
Dorothy Parker, Observation
Edna St. Vincent Millay, First Fig
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15535http://www.cswnet.com/~menamc/langston.htmhttp://faculty.weber.edu/chansen/humanweb/projects/MeghanUng/whatif.htmhttp://www.poemhunter.com/poem/faith-is-a-fine-invention/http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/observation-2/http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/first-fig/http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/first-fig/http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/observation-2/http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/faith-is-a-fine-invention/http://faculty.weber.edu/chansen/humanweb/projects/MeghanUng/whatif.htmhttp://www.cswnet.com/~menamc/langston.htmhttp://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/155357/30/2019 ESL Reading Material
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Micro-fiction
Six word memoirs
Hemingway
Parables
Sufi/Zen
http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/http://www.litkicks.com/FlashFictionhttp://www.detoxifynow.com/zen_parables.htmlhttp://www.detoxifynow.com/zen_parables.htmlhttp://www.litkicks.com/FlashFictionhttp://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/