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Selecting & Adapting a Textbook For ESL Students

Selecting & Adapting a Textbook For ESL Students. OCSD. Modifying a Textbook. Pre-teach and preview the material Outline the required text List vocabulary words and definitions Provide a checklist of required assignments/due dates Provide a study guide Provide audio-tape of the material.

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Selecting & Adapting a Textbook For ESL Students

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  1. Selecting & Adapting a Textbook For ESL Students OCSD

  2. Modifying a Textbook • Pre-teach and preview the material • Outline the required text • List vocabulary words and definitions • Provide a checklist of required assignments/due dates • Provide a study guide • Provide audio-tape of the material

  3. Previewing and Pre-teaching Strategies • Preview bold-faced print and italicized words, headings, and subheadings with students • Furnish a weekly list of vocabulary and bold-faced words to the students in advance • Use the words in sentences directly related to the context of the chapter

  4. (Cont.) • Generate chapter vocabulary lists from textbooks • Include chapter title and page number • Offer vocabulary lists to students and support teachers • Provide a list of discussion questions with page number location clues

  5. (Cont.) • Provide an outline of main ideas and vocabulary words for each unit • Provide a pad of Post-It notes; the student jots down notes, words and questions and applies the notes directly to the textbook

  6. Color-Coding Ideas • Purchase several textbooks for the purpose of highlighting information • Color code the student textbook • For example, use yellow for vocabulary words, blue for definitions, and green to highlight topic sentences

  7. Audio Taping • Record the lesson; allow student to listen to tape with small group or peer tutor • Color code text to accompany the audiocassette. Highlight important information that student is expected to know

  8. Materials to Motivate Readers • Sports Page • Magazines, Newspapers • Biographies • Computer Aided Materials and WebQuests • Travel Brochures • How-to-Books

  9. Selecting Textbooks • Attractive and Colorful • Self-Explanatory • Self-Correcting • Reusable Workbooks • Has Educational Software & Audio-Tapes • Lots of Pictures, Charts, & Graphs

  10. Including Non-Readers • Use Guided Reading to read text aloud • Divide students into two groups with one group doing something else while you read aloud to the other • Group students into cooperative groups and have them read aloud to each other

  11. Thank-you !

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