After taking a quick look at this website, I have the impression that  
it is primarily targeted at kindergarten age children, and possibly  
monolingual ones at that.  I think we need to be careful not to  
misapply reading curricula designed for monolingual English-speaking  
children, to adolescents or adults with low literacy skills who are  
learning to read for the first time in a second language. The issues  
are typically quite different for these two types of learners.


On Jan 26, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Donna Price wrote:


> www.starfall.com

> It's a free website for very low literate students.

>

> From: englishlanguage-bounces at nifl.gov on behalf of Barber, Jennifer

> Sent: Mon 1/26/2009 8:53 AM

> To: The Adult English Language Learners Discussion List

> Subject: RE: [EnglishLanguage 3561] Re: ESL software

>

> Thank you for the suggestions. The problem is we have students who  

> are not Spanish speakers. My lowest level student is Korean.

>

> Jennifer Barber

> English as a Second Language

>

> Grays Harbor College

> 1620 Edward P. Smith Drive

> Office: 2214

> Aberdeen, WA 98520

> 360-538-2516

> jbarber at ghc.edu

> www.ghc.edu/faculty/barber

>

>

> From: englishlanguage-bounces at nifl.gov on behalf of Ossie Cerna

> Sent: Sun 1/25/2009 11:49 PM

> To: englishlanguage at nifl.gov

> Subject: [EnglishLanguage 3561] Re: ESL software

>

> Try pumarosa.com. It's free. Rosetta Stone is good but expensive  

> and requires some basic English.

>

> Ossie Cerna

>

>

>

> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:52:04 -0600

> From: SJensen at hawkeyecollege.edu

> To: englishlanguage at nifl.gov

> Subject: [EnglishLanguage 3560] Re: ESL software

>

> We use the ELLIS software program for our ELL lab---very  

> interactive and many levels, beginning adult ELL to entering ABE/ 

> GED.  It is excellent but not cheap.  We wrote a grant to purchase it.

>

>

> Sandy Jensen, Hawkeye Community College

>

> ABE/GED/ELL

>

> Waterloo, Iowa

>

>

> From: englishlanguage-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:englishlanguage- 

> bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Barber, Jennifer

> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 5:21 PM

> To: The Adult English Language Learners Discussion List

> Subject: [EnglishLanguage 3531] ESL software

>

>

> Our program is looking at ESL software. Rosetta Stone has been  

> mentioned. We use Focus on Grammar books which I know has software.

>

>

> Does anyone have a recommendation of a program(s) that would  

> address the ESL needs of students from Level 1 (no English;  

> possibly illiterate in the first language) to Level 6 (entering ABE  

> or Dev. Ed. Classes)?

>

>

> Thanks,

>

>

> Jennifer Barber

>

> English as a Second Language Instructor

>

> Volunteer Literacy Program Coordinator

>

>

> Grays Harbor College

>

> 1620 Edward P. Smith Drive

>

> Office: 2214

>

> Aberdeen, WA 98520

>

> 360-538-2516

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> jbarber at ghc.edu

>

> www.ghc.edu/faculty/barber

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