Hi Liz,

I want to second Kirk's suggestion.  Also take a look at Heide Spruck
Wrigley's Bringing Literacy to Life on leslla.org under links/teacher
resources.

Larry Condelli

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>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

>

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