Instructors can incorporate stories into lessons and can use the categories listed in the archives to work thematically. Sponsor A partnership between Western Pacific Literacy Network and the CNN San Francisco bureau. GTE Reads provides support in underwriting curriculum development and Mindset software provides technical assistance. Curricular Uses ESOL and Literacy Students. There are links for each story where additional information on the subject of story can be found.
Learners explore other news stories here.
This site is intended for adult ESOL and Literacy learners and their instructors. This site provides adult literacy instructors with appropriate reading material, which is often hard to find. The format of the stories is short and manageable, but the topics are adult in nature. The brevity of the text is less apparent on the screen than it is with beginning reader books. It is a fantastic way to introduce basic Internet skills to your group and to demonstrate the support online activities can provide.