The ESL Beginning Literacy Booklet contains +25 downloable and printable units designed for use with immigrants, refugees and low literate English Language learners.

Slide shows and worksheets that guide students to learn about careers and build interview skills. Level: 4 or more below TLEE. Skills: Vocabulary, reading, speaking, writing

We created this site to share the lesson plans and other materials that we use in this Listening/Speaking Level F class with other ESL teachers -- click around and use what works for you! This is a 10-week course at LCC, but you can pick and choose from the 8 chapters for a shorter or longer term. The chapters can be covered in any order.

Lane Community College's Intensive English Language Program offers 6 levels (A=beginner, F=college transition). This site was designed for Listening/Speaking Level F, which is a class that teaches listening and note-taking strategies focused especially on lecture listening, as well as presentation, pronunciation, conversation, and academic discussion skills.

LCC ESL Students in Level F take three separate intensive classes (Writing, Listening/Speaking, and Reading for a total of 20 in-class contact hours per week). Prior to the re-imagining of this class and the creation of this site, each Level F class had a different textbook with different thematic progressions. Students experienced cognitive overload with the demand to learn the vocabulary, concepts, and skills of the three separate classes. In addition, students in our department are often from marginalized backgrounds and can find it financially difficult to purchase the three separate textbooks.

In order to lessen students' financial and cognitive burdens and create more connections between the three classes, we used the topics from the Reading textbook (Academic Encounters Level 4: Reading and Writing, 2nd edition, Cambridge 2014) to find freely-available authentic videos or recorded audio for the Listening/Speaking class.

Over the past year, students have expressed appreciation for the reduced cost of taking the course. In addition, they have shown increased interest and engagement in the course due to the authentic, real-life materials and complementary nature of the three Level F classes.

Intermediate-level reading/writing textbook uses themes from the novel Uprising. Includes pre-reading, comprehension questions, graphic organizers, and writing prompts. Level: 2 below TLEE; Skills: reading, writing, vocabulary; Resource type: Textbook

Composition instruction including success skills, reading strategies, writing process, research process and grammar. Level: TLEE; Skill: writing

This is a thematic, integrated skills unit on food and culture with links to authentic texts Level: 1-below TLEE; Skills: Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking, Grammar

In this ESL module, students learn how to interview a classmate and write a profile, or short biography. The module includes reading and vocabulary lessons, listening and speaking exercises, writing practice and grammar lessons.

This thematic integrated-skills textbook includes reading, writing, speaking and listening activities on themes such as Psychology, US History and Lifespans. CEFR B2 level.

An intermediate integrated skills textbook for adult English learners. Appropriate for adult education and beginning level community college English learners.

Interactive, integrated-skills, multimedia textbook. Texts are not authentic but genre-based (e.g., workplace forms). Appropriate for a low level class with a workplace focus. Level: 4 or more below TLEE; Skills: reading, vocabulary, listening, speaking, functional-notional

Textbook, classic paragraph-to-essay focus. Focus on rhetorical modes (narrative, compare-contrast) Some grammar included. Topic sentences, formatting. Level: 3 below TLEE; Skills: grammar, writing

“It’s All Greek to Me!” has everything—entertaining stories, academic articles in a variety of disciplines, vocabulary crossover in literary and academic readings, connections to local, American, and Western culture, and plenty of chances for critical thinking for advanced students of English as a Second Language (ESL). All readings are authentic with minimal adaptation from a variety of sources.

This textbook also gives help for advanced level grammar and writing issues, using outside sources, and reading and vocabulary strategies.

A set of slides teaching the alphabet and beginning sound-letter correspondence. Level: 4 or more below TLEE; Skills: literacy, phonics; Resource Type: Slides

Created for Washtenaw Community College's low intermediate ESL students, this OER writing textbook covers writing sentences, summaries, opinions, and narratives, as well as improving spelling and grammar.

This is a thematic, integrated-skills unit on media literacy with links to authentic texts. Level: 1-below TLEE; Skills: Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking, Grammar;

Workbook teaches IPA, pronunciation (stress, intonation), vocabulary and presentation skills using an integrated skills approach through examples from Hamilton. Level: 2 below TLEE, 1 below TLEE; Skills: listening, speaking, pronunciation, vocabulary; Resource type: Workbook; Multimedia (interactive, audio-visuals).

Short Description:
This textbook includes materials on listening, speaking, lexicogrammar, pragmatics, and pronunciation.

Long Description:
This textbook includes materials on listening, speaking, lexicogrammar, pragmatics, and pronunciation.

Word Count: 10362

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Each unit begins with a chapter of fiction about a teacher and students in one ESL class. Reading comprehension and reading skills exercises follow. Prefix and suffix vocabulary-focus exercises are included. Academic Word List vocabulary exercises help students build a strong foundation in both receptive and productive knowledge. The following chapters in each unit expand on unit themes through non-fiction articles focusing on academic preparation, international experiences, and cultural adjustment. Vocabulary is repeated and comprehension and reading skills are further practiced.

This is an intermediate integrated-skills module for English language learners. The module has three chapters on the theme "People and Places," which is equivalent to approximately 4 weeks of material for a 9 unit community college course. The module has materials to learn and practice all of the necessary language skills at the intermediate level. Academic language skills include reading, writing, listening, speaking, vocabulary, grammar, and rhetorical analysis.