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English Language Learners
Success for Every Struggling Reader
Exciting, relevant nonfiction engages English language learners and provides them with the academic vocabulary and essential knowledge required for success in the content areas.
The companion LBook is directly aligned to the rBook curriculum and gives English language learners at all stages the unique development support they need to achieve reading success.
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LBook: Language. Literacy. Learning.
Added Support Available for ELLs!Senior Advisor, and coauthor of the rBook, Dr. Kate Kinsella, created the LBook Teaching Guide and Student Worktext to extend rBook instruction and support English language learners at multiple language proficiency levels by providing explicit, sequential, linguistically logical, and systematic instruction and practice.
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The READ 180 Software Provides Second-Language Support in Five Languages
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Special Features:
- Anchor Videos help students build background knowledge and develop mental models.
- Software provides opportunities for repeated oral reading practice, including making recordings for self-assessment.
- Oral language development and academic language strategies are integrated into the teaching materials and engage students with accountable response tasks.
- The rBook and the Topic Software scaffold academic writing and revision.
- Multi-cultural content makes the program relevant to students from diverse backgrounds.
- Audiobooks , eReads, and Topic Software allow students to read along with examples of modeled fluent reading.
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District Spotlight:
In the 2006-2007 school year, DSUSD implemented READ 180 with 166 sixth- through ninth-grade ELLs who performed at the Below Basic or Basic Performance Level on the CST ELA. Results confirmed that READ 180 ELLs outperformed their peers by 62%. Download Full Report (PDF)
Desert Sands USD, CA