Reading Materials
(see also
Vocabulary)

  Click on the title or cover for more information.
All Around America
Take your students on a trip all around America, visiting 18 famous sites.
American Holidays
Exploring cultural traditions, customs and backgrounds
Celebrating American Heroes
13 brief plays to be read aloud dramatically. In each play there are a few main characters and a chorus.
Dictations for Discussion
A listening / speaking text. A wide variety of articles, given as dictations, provides topics for lively classroom conversation
 
Discussion Strategies
38 activities based on amusing, high-interest readings, build discussion skills needed for academics and business
 
Getting a Fix on Vocabulary
Newspaper articles combined with a study of prefixes, suffixes and affixes
 
From Sound to Sentence
This book is for learners who have some familiarity with spoken English, but little
skill as readers or writers. It can also be useful as a remedial text for learners who are
struggling with English spelling.
 
Grandparents Are Special
A charming children's story, beautifully illustrated in full color, elementary/middle school
Heroes From American History
An intermediate integrated skills reader that includes 16 remarkable stories of men and women who struggled and succeeded - includes a variety of engaging activities.
 
How & Why Folktales
12 Classic folktales for reading and retelling.
Improvisations
This collection of improvisations is designed to bridge the gap between the classroom and the street.
 
Interactive Dictations
This is a book of dictations, but with Interactive Dictations, students do much more than take down what they hear. They interact in guided discussions, reacting, debating, deciding, solving, comparing, critiquing, or just talking together.
 
Legends
This collection of 52 bio-sketches can be used by English language learners at high beginning to advanced levels. It can be used to work on all skills - speaking, listening, reading, and writing. At the same time it can be used to explore American history through the lives of some very interesting and impressive people.
 
Murder at Ocean View College
An Exciting, Contemporary ESL Reader
for Community College Students,
High School and Adult Education Students, and All Reluctant Readers.
 
Nasreddin Hodja
With 66 traditional stories this edition of Nasreddin Hodja is designed so that it can be used as a reader or for storytelling.
 
The New Boy Is Lost
The exciting, frightening adventures of a boy new to the United States. He gets lost in the city on his way home from school. A Full-Color Picture-Based Novel for children
Nobel Prize Winners
Biographical sketches for listening and reading.
 
Pearls of Wisdom
A fascinating and enjoyable collection of stories from Africa and the Caribbean. Cassette tapes/2 CD's also available.
 
People at Work
An innovative whole-language program, 10 people are interviewed at work
Phrasal Verb Affair
In this book your students will encounter over 200 phrasal verbs in the context of a soap opera.
 
Plays for the Holidays
Your students will enjoy and learn as they read, write, listen, and perform plays.
 
Pronunciation Activities
Pronunciation practice made fun using limericks, involving creativity, speaking, listening, reading and writing
 
Read 50
As its title promises, Pro Lingua’s new series of graded readers offers your beginning level students an opportunity to do just that – read and learn. The articles are in full color, full of varied, high interest material. That keeps students reading, and reading is a critical skill for anyone who needs to use language in everyday life
 
Read 75
As its title promises, Pro Lingua’s new series of graded readers offers your beginning level students an opportunity to do just that – read and learn. The articles are in full color, full of varied, high interest material. That keeps students reading, and reading is a critical skill for anyone who needs to use language in everyday life
 
Read 100
As its title promises, Pro Lingua’s new series of graded readers offers your beginning level students an opportunity to do just that – read and learn. The articles are in full color, full of varied, high interest material. That keeps students reading, and reading is a critical skill for anyone who needs to use language in everyday life
 
Read 125
As its title promises, Pro Lingua’s new series of graded readers offers your beginning level students an opportunity to do just that – read and learn. The articles are in full color, full of varied, high interest material. That keeps students reading, and reading is a critical skill for anyone who needs to use language in everyday life
 
Real Basics
Concepts and vocabulary that beginning-level immigrants need, high-interest topics,easy-to follow layout, lots of practice with spoken and written language
 
Rhymes 'n Rhythms
32 Rhymes. Read them aloud or chant them as a chorus. These little rhymes will enchant your class.
 
The Sanchez Family
This beginning-level workbook includes illustrations and a series of simple, graded exercises, the learner follows the Sanchez Family through a typical day.
 
Stranger in Town
A "radio play" about a drifter settling in a new town, cassette available
 
This World of Ours
Stanley Frank has developed a varied and challenging collection of photocopyable activities for the advanced-level student.
 
To Set Them Free / Ozgurluk Ugruna
A bilingual Turkish/English biography of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
 
Story Cards--
2 different books with irresistible story-telling fun. Each book has cards with short, humorous stories. Students read their card and retell to a partner.

 1. - Aesop's Fables

 

 2. - North American Indian Tales
 

 

Vocabureaders-
What are Vocabureaders?
They are 2 different readers with short articles on subjects of general interest written in simple English. Students are asked to determine the meaning of highlighted vocabulary from context. Then exercises teach the noun, verb, adjective and adverb forms of those words. There are an answer key and teaching suggestions in each book.

 3. - Wheels and Wings
 

 4. - The Zodiac
 
Where In The World
Travel around the world with your class, joining the adventures of Igor as he visits 30 great places all around our planet Earth.
 




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