I'm wondering if anyone has tapped into the valuable resource of elementary teachers who are faced with level differences and adapting materials. There may be some valuable ideas there. While the students may (altho probably not) speak all the same language, the strategies that I have seen through my B.Ed have been directly transferrable to all of my ESL classes, regardless of their level or the strand. www.learner.org has many programs on literacy, multicultural text and second language teaching that I've found inspirational. 
emma

Emma Bourassa
English as a Second or Additional Language/ Teaching English as a Second Language Instructor
ESAL Department
Thompson Rivers University
900 McGill Road. P.O. Box 3010
Kamloops, B.C. V2C 5N3
(250) 371-5895
fax 371-5514
ebourassa at tru.ca