ESL Materials
- American Manners and Customs - Elizabeth Claire
Call Number: 390 CLAIRE
ISBN/ISSN: 093763011x
This resource provides correct and “safe” guidance for dealing with the scores of social interactions, including meeting and greeting people, eye contact, maintaining personal distance, waiting in line, and more. It includes articles on how others have encountered situations, and contains vocabulary focus and assistance, activities, discussions, and quizzes. 
Easy Pronunciation
Call Number: KIT 421.54 EASY
ISBN/ISSN: 1400020891
No matter what your level of English is—or if you're trying to lessen a strong regional accent—this program will help you sound more natural and communicate with greater ease and confidence.- ESL Easy English
Call Number: DVD 428.24 ESL
This DVD series presents English lessons in the context of conversations. The series covers common things including formal and informal introductions, parts of the day, weather, polite speech, counting and using money, asking for directions and help and how to use addresses and phone numbers. 
Fluent English
Call Number: KIT 428.34 FLUENT
ISBN/ISSN: 1400020883
For intermediate level ESL students, learn how to make your English sound natural. This course helps develop native-like fluency in English. It focuses on the essentials—idiomatic expressions, phrasal verbs, practical vocabulary expansion, and grammar usage in context—and builds listening comprehension as well as pronunciation and intonation skills.- Learning English Steps 1-2-3
Call Number: DVD 420.71 LEARNING
For beginning ESL students, this series provides lots of practice in the basics of listening, reading, and writing with easy-to-follow lessons and practice exercises from everyday life. - Living in America Series: Fitting Into Your Community
Call Number: 428.0071 FITTING
ISBN/ISSN: 1564205282
The Living in America series of six books teaches basic language and vocabulary to adult learners with very limited English literacy and oral proficiency. The titles in this series include Fitting Into Your Community, Understanding Key Health Issues, Operating a Motor Vehicle, Using Official Documents, Getting Along with Others and Knowing Your Rights & Responsibilities. - Communication Spotlight
Call Number: 428.3 COMMUNICATION
ISBN/ISSN: 1896942229
This 2-level series of speaking and listening texts is designed to give students the means to control their communication by drawing their attention to important aspects of English while practicing and using the language. Strategies help students to develop conversations, compensate for a lack of language, and more.
Adult Literacy Materials
Voyager Series
Call Number: 428.4 VOYAGER
ISBN/ISSN: 1564201503
The first book in the series, the Foundation book, targets adults reading at 0.5 - 1.5 grade level. This series progress through 8 books and goes up to a 9.5 grade level.- In the Know: The Informational Reading Series - Michael P. O'Donnell
Call Number: 428.4 O'DONNELL
ISBN/ISSN: 0883363216
In the Know is a reading program specifically designed for adults who need practice reading fluently and with comprehension. The series consists of four student books that feature reading selections that are easy to relate to such as sports and leisure, health and fitness, and jobs. - Reading Wise
Call Number: 428.4 READING
ISBN/ISSN: 1564203255
This eight-level comprehension-based program emphasizes nonfiction literacy. Each lesson teaches a single comprehension strategy that will complement material from any core reading series and can be applied to reading experiences outside the classroom. - American lives 1 : readings and language activities - Gail Feinstein Forman
Call Number: 428.6 FORMAN
ISBN/ISSN: 1564204359
American Lives takes a reading journey into the stories of famous – and lesser-known people – and whose contributions have helped shape key periods in U.S. history. Fifteen high-interest biographies of both native-born Americans and immigrants are featured in each book, profiling their lives and experiences in a cultural context. Lessons at each book level can be taught in any order, and begin with a photograph and pre-reading set of questions. - Say the word!: A Guide to Improving Word Recognition Skills - Barbara Rosenberg Loss
Call Number: 372.4 LOSS
ISBN/ISSN: 0883361523
Students learn strategies to help them master letter patterns that cause problems for many readers. Lessons are divided into six sections, each dealing with a specific decoding difficulty. The lessons include a guessing strategy exercise, list of practice words, listening practice, practice using words in context, and exceptions to general rules.
Tutor Materials
- Taking the Mystique Out of Learning Disabilities - Ricki Goldstein
Call Number: 371.9 GOLDSTEIN
ISBN/ISSN: 0920877508
Tutors learn more about learning disabilities – the causes, the impact on students, compensatory strategies, accommodations, and other related issues. - Teaching Adults: A Literacy Resource Book
Call Number: 374.0124 TEACHING
ISBN/ISSN: 1564200396
While emphasizing the importance of adapting instruction to fit individual needs, this book includes 69 activities that can be used with learners. The easy-to-use activities include creating language experience stories, working with dialogue journals, developing story maps, and more. - Litstart: Strategies for Adult Literacy and ESL Tutors - Patricia Frey
Call Number: 374.0124 FREY
The book provides a variety of tutoring strategies, offers guidance on choosing the best strategies and materials for your students, and will help you develop a lesson plan based on your student’s personal needs and goals.
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