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[EnglishLanguage 2065] Re: How to help low-literacy students develop chart-reading ability
Condelli, Larry
LCondelli at air.orgTue Jan 15 14:10:58 EST 2008
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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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