Question:
I'm a volunteer for the Pasadena Public Library and am teaching English
as a Second Language. My student is from El Salvador. Any recommendations
or suggestions on books,... ?
Answer:
Just an idea: the children's room of the library probably has books of
amazing variety. If your student is interested in AIDS or air pollution,
or El Salvador (a lot of people like to read about home), you can get books
on that topic. She might prefer non-fiction to fiction, after all, and
might like reading about a topic she knows something about, whether it's
cooking or geology. You can get books from a first-grade level up, and by
the time you get to third grade, every imaginable subject is covered.
I know California libraries, some of them at least, are going through hard
times, but does yours have, or can it get, books on such matters as family
finance, preganancy, and child care, written for very bad readers of
English? I've seen those in Cleveland's library. They seemed to be
written for people who didn't get much out of school, or came to English
late. Our local library also has a Adult New Reader collection, but if
yours did, you wouldn't be asking, I guess
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