Resources to Teach Limited English Proficient Students

[Rob_Hugo@PortNW]

I came across a perfect book for LEP 1 called "The Little Stone Lion" by Kim Xiong. It's about a Stone Lion that protects the villagers in a small Chinese vilage. I think it could be a good intro to the Chinese culutre. It has colorful pictures in which the way Chinese live can be observed. It has no more than two sentences per illustration, and is a perfect independent reader for beginning language learners.

I am looking for resources to teach Asia to LEP I students. If you have any ideas, please let me know.

Helen [Edit by="hlee on Aug 26, 12:06:33 AM"][/Edit]

[Anonymous]

Hello! Those of you who teach Limited English Language learners. I know you have them in some of your sheltered history classes. What kind of resources and methods are you using to make Asia and Asian history comprehensible to them? If you have any success stories or effective resources, please, please share them with me. THANK YOU,

Helen Lee

[Anonymous]

This book is about a boy from a lower social class called "Sang-Min" in 19th century Korea who defeats all the upper class "yangban" students to passes the government test (confucian style similar to Chinese-I assume) with honors, to do great things later in his life.

Here is the note frome the Authors:
"The royal Bee was inspired by the true story of our grandfather, Hong Seung Han, when he was an illiterate boy i late nineteenth-century Korea. Too poor to attend school, he would eavesdrop at the door of the rich children's schoolhouse until he was eventually allowed to attend. After he won a national academic contest, the Governor of his province invited him to reside in the palace. There, he tutored the Governor's young son while contiuing his education. years later our grandfather attended seminary in Pyongyang under the teachings of an American missionary and became a prominent church minister. In 1905 he wed our grandmother, Pang Seung Hwa. Together they became missionaries in China."

The story is written at about 3rd grade level and has wonderful pictures depicting the life and fashion of Korea in the 1800s.

[Anonymous]

"Home of the Brave" by Allen Say is a wonderful book to introduce or inforce your lesson on Japanese internment during WWII. Like most of Allen Say's books, it is full of beautiful water color illustrations to help your LEP students comprehend the content.

Here's a description of the book by Houghton Mifflin company:
In dreamlike sequences, a man symbolically confronts the trauma of his family’s incarceration in the Japanese internment camps during World War II. This infamous event is made emotionally clear through his meeting a group of children all with strange name tags pinned to their coats. The man feels the helplessness of the children. Finally, desperately he releases the name tags like birds into the air to find their way home with the hope for a time when Americans will be seen as one people—not judged, mistrusted, or segregated because of their individual heritage. Sixty years after thousands of Japanese Americans were unjustly imprisoned, the cogent prose and haunting paintings of renowned author and illustrator Allen Say remind readers of a dark chapter in America’s history.

For more information, sample illustrations and to hear an interview with Allen Say about the book on NPR's Weekend edition, go to:

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[Anonymous]

Here are some websites where you can find resources appropriate for younger students or Limited English Language students in Middle or High Schools.

Chinese Children’s books
http://www.childbook.com/
Sells Chinese Children Books, Video's, Audio and computer CD's, and other materials for libraries, ESL Programs, and government institutions for teaching Chinese Culture and Language.

Korean Children’s books, CDs and DVDs
http://hanbooks.com/korchilstora.html
Japanese Children’s Page
Sells bilingual books in Japanese and English
http://www.multilingualbooks.com/japchild.html

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