[NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:2893] Repurposed media : What's available for beginning readers?

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In my experience tutoring beginning readers, I've noticed it's difficult to 
get some of them interested in the reading materials available to them, 
which, where I tutored, was mostly fiction and biography. And since I'm a 
writer and editor by profession, I've started to wonder what other sorts of 
materials -- either repurposed from other media or original -- are 
available for this reading level.

Here's what I've come across:

1. News for You: rewritten AP news stories, with a news quiz added

2. Sports Illustrated for Kids / Time for Kids : repackaged/rewritten 
content from these news weeklies

3. TV411 : web-based reading exercises based on tv news clips


So my questions are these:

* Are there other commercial publishing operations involved in creating or 
repurposing material for this market? I can't help but wonder whether there 
are regional publications that have been repurposed as well.. I've often 
thought that some students might respond to local news more 
enthusiastically than they do to fiction.

* Has anyone collected circulation and/or usage data on these publications?

*  What resources are available to program directors in acquiring reading 
materials?

Thanks in advance for help either on- or off-list.

Lisa Holzer

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