Hi Alex, 

Probably the very best resource that can be found on teaching health to 
adult learners and English to non-native speakers is The Virginia Adult 
Education Health Literacy Toolkit by Kate Singleton and published by the 
Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center.  It can be found at 
http://www.aelweb.vcu.edu/publications/healthlit/ or in the publications 
section of the Resource Center's web site at http://www.valrc.org.  The 
Toolkit is designed to support creative approaches to help learners 
increase health literacy as they engage in sound, productive adult 
literacy instruction. 

In the chapter for "Teaching Health Topics"  (Section D) you will find 
many resources including links to curriculum designed specifically for 
non-native speakers.  These include: 

1.) The very useful instructional PICTURE STORIES at 
www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/Health  Eight lesson plans are built 
around picture stories that are very appropriate for those learning 
English. They all deal with health, such as emergency, making a doctor's 
appointment, stress, medications, etc.  These lessons and the pictures are 
downloadable, free of charge. 

2) EL/Civics  Health Awareness Curriculum of Fairfax County at 
http://www.aelweb.vcu.edu/publications/healthlit/sections/d/secD-p5.pdf 
Tons of lessons at various levels of language proficiency. 

3.)  REEP Curriculum at 
http://www.arlington.k12.va.us/instruct/ctae/adult_ed/REEP/reepcurriculum/index.html 


4)  REEP World (for students) www.reepworld.org 

5)  EL/Civics Health Curriculum published by Charlottesville City Schools 
at www.ccs.k12.va.us/programs/esl/docs/health/Health_Curriculum.pdf 

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. 

Nancy 


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Nancy R. Faux
ESOL Specialist
Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA 
nfaux at vcu.edu
http://www.valrc.org
1-800-237-0178
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