As a program coordinator for a community literacy center with a limited budget (serving students whose budgets are often even more limited), I am always excited when I find good, FREE resources for ELL literacy tutors and their students. This is one.
Staying Healthy, a health literacy curriculum for ELLs, was published by the Florida Literacy Coalition last year. This is a great, comprehensive, basic health literacy curriculum.
I have found the units on doctor visits and medications particularly good useful in my classes. The literacy tutors I work with are impressed by the strategic use of good graphics throughout this resource. The unit on chronic disease is not sufficient to stand alone, but provides a good springboard to further discussion.
A place to post and discuss health literacy resources.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
New Mental Health Literacy tools for teachers of adult ELLs at New Routes to Community Health www.newroutes.org
Egal Shidad ELL ActitivitiesThis resource for instructors includes 7 units with activities that build English language related to mental health. The materials build off a hour-long video about mental health. The video is in Somali with English subtitles and can be viewed online or ordered as a DVD.
Lesson 2 uses short, English-language, video clips to create listening activities about mental health topics. This lesson and a few of the others would also be appropriate for use with ELL students who are not Somali.
All of the lesson materials are FREE, though there may be a small shipping charge to order the DVD instead of working with the online video.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
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