Summer on Wheels by Gary Soto is a great book for students to read in the ESL or Spec Ed classroom.
Hector and Mando are bored, so they embark on a bike-riding adventure. Along the way, they get paid to be in a Band-aid commercial, perform in a rap recording, help Aunt Teresa paint a mural. They meet all kinds of people and eat numerous types of food. This is a light-hearted book, very useful for reader comprehension. It's also full of simlies and metaphors that young people "get."
I've found this to be a reader-friendly book for all the cultures I teach. So far, we've created character webs. Gary Soto describes his characters vividly, so this was simple for the students. We also made plot diagrams.
A quick and easy method for analyzing the parts of a sentence and learning English grammar. Now available as an eBook in PDF format. All study notes, exercises and tests are reproducible blackline masters that teachers can take directly to the copy m
The Harlem Renaissance remains exciting, inspiring, and irresistible in the first half of the 21st Century for the same reason that the many people who lived it found it exciting, inspiring, and irresistible in the first half of the 20th Century. De
This valuable educational tool for students and teachers not only entertains with engaging stories on the lives and events which comprised the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. It also provides important case studies of diversity, multiculturalism, an
