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A very useful article about how to help intermediate ESL students. This article uses ideas from Second Language Aquisition Theories.

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Strategic Collaborative Reading - An approach to improving students reading comprehension

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[] Reading comprehension in the ESL context. The first part is more theoretical and the second part more practical [] Teaching Reading Comprehension to ESL Learners [] Adolescents and Literacy, Reading for the 21st Century An article on teaching reading in a second language Found at [] [] A short article on Using Top Level Structure - Faye Bolton

A short article in support of Quiet Reading Time []

[] Effective Practices for Developing Reading Comprehension - Nell K. Duke and P. David Pearson

[] Motivating Low Performing Adolescent Readers

[] Using Newspapers in ESL Literacy classroom

[] Using authentic texts with low-level ESL classes

[] Reading Comprehension Requires Knowledge - of Words and the World This article makes the argument that there is an inital benifit to teaching comprehension strategies but that teachers (in America) are now spending too much time on comprehension strategies. Hirsch argues that teachers should systematically build up word and domain knowledge because students need knowledge in order to understand what they are reading. 'The best way to expand students’ language is to expand their understanding of what language refers to.'

[] Teaching and developing vocabulary [] Bringing Literacy Strategies Into Content Instruction