>Hi Liz,

There is not a lot of literature out there. A wonderful place to start is
the Low Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquistion website:
www.leslla.org. Paulo Freire(1985) did a lot with charts but there are
concerns with his method and ELLs. Hope this helps.
Kirk Olgin
Glendale College

Hello.  I teach a high-beginning ELL class, and am planning a

> practitioner-research project this year that focuses on strengthening the

> literacy skills of the low-literate Ss in the class, those with little/no

> literacy experience in L1, who continue to demonstrate many obstacles to

> navigating print documents, even though they have been able to test into

> high-beginning.  I'm focusing particularly on the reading skills needed to

> read information in charts (needed in real life, necessary for success on

> the CASAS 81/82RX test).  I would appreciate input on two questions:

>

> - Where can I learn more about the cognitive constructs these Ss bring to

> this kind of literacy task?  I.e., what do we know about Ss who haven't

> oriented to print in their growing up years, or had any academic

> experience, and how they relate to information on a printed page?

>

> - What strategies have you used that have helped such Ss strengthen their

> chart-reading abilities?

>

> Thank you.

>

> Liz Andress

> St. Paul, MN

> elizabeth.andress at spps.org

> 651-296-4826

>

>

> ----------------------------------------------------

> National Institute for Literacy

> Adult English Language Learners mailing list

> EnglishLanguage at nifl.gov

> To unsubscribe or change your subscription settings, please go to

> http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/englishlanguage

> Email delivered to kolgin at glendale.edu

>