Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g56MtUO09163; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 18:55:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 18:55:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4c.c836df7.2a314168@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Missm1775@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1169] Re: Low Level High Interest Novels X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10567 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_4c.c836df7.2a314168_boundary" Status: O Content-Length: 2506 Lines: 39 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Andrea, We use children's literature extensively and the primary reason that we use for motivational purposes is that the parent eventually puts the story on tape and sends the tape and story book home to his child (I am the ESL coordinator of an incarcerated education program). This really aids literacy development and teaches the conventions of print, narrative structure, sequencing, etc. Our students are usually at the 3rd grade level in their native language literacy development, so any activities that promote the acquisition of L1 & L2 literacy skills are useful to them. For parents who have no L1 or L2 literacy skills picture books are used, reading and narrative structure is modeled extensively through shared reading and dialogic reading activities, and the pre literate parent creates and 'reads' a story to his child as well. This can be extended to non parent students by having them donate their 'books on tape' to head start and other pre school/hospital programs. Best, Margo DelliCarpini E.S. BOCES Jail Education Suffolk County, NY
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