Featuring Books Teens and Adults, Learning To Read English, Love

Thank you for visiting my blog.  You have come to the right place if you are looking for ESL stories suitable for English as a second language or adult literacy programs.  It is difficult to find short chapter books that are exciting for teens and adults who are learning to read English.

Improve the reading experience for your ESL students or older learners by suggesting books that have high interest content and low vocabulary levels.

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The books most often recommended for ESL and adult literacy programs are either children’s books or selections from the classics.

Many of the books recommended as ESL stories include classics such as To Kill A Mockingbird, Tom Sawyer, Alice in Wonderland, and the Sherlock Holmes mysteries.

While these are great books for English classes, they are not easy-reading books for ESL students.  The writing style is not contemporary.  It is an older style of writing with long chapters, flowery descriptions, and outdated inferences that ESL students do not understand.

The inferences, hidden meanings, and multiple-meaning words make reading comprehension for ESL students and adult learners very difficult.  It also makes your job frustrating because your students are not enjoying the reading experience.  In fact many of your students have no idea what the story is about.

Your students will thank you for providing ESL stories especially crafted for older readers learning to read English.

Books that:

• range from a grade 2 to grade 4.5 reading level

• do not look like primary grade books

• do not embarrass the reader by advertising the reading level on the cover

• encourage readers to feel successful

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These novels are written by Canadian authors who have intentionally written high interest, low vocabulary stories to encourage older learners to read for pleasure.

The authors understand how difficult it can be to develop a love of reading when the reader has to constantly use a dictionary to get through every page.

Dayle Gaetz has worked as a literacy teacher, creative writing instructor, book editor, and newspaper columnist. She is the author of 20 books for readers from 7 to 17. Her most recent books for teens include several “high-interest, low-vocabulary” novels with riveting plots that hold the interest of struggling readers and help give them the confidence they need to continue reading.

Writing as G.D. Gaetz, Dayle has recently turned her attention to books for adults.  Her first is Woman in the Glass, a fast-paced, easy to read mystery focusing on domestic abuse.

Kristin Butcher  lives in Campbell River, BC.  Her book Zach & Zoe Bully and the Beagle has won the 2011 Chocolate Lily Children’s Choice Award in the chapter book category.

Laura Langston lives in Victoria, BC.  She writes fiction for kids and teens and longer novels for women.

These authors, and more, have written contemporary short novels that are awesome for ESL students and adult literacy programs.

You and your students will find, after reading the first chapter, you are hooked by the story and will want to keep reading to find out what happens next.

Read chapter one of Woman in the Glass and see for yourself.

Remember these books are low vocabulary and high interest novels.  This fact is not displayed on the covers; readers need feel no embarrassment and may never be aware of the lower reading level.

All come in easy to ship paperbacks.  They are also available for instant download in ebook formats.

You can promote the love of reading with these novels.

They are perfect ESL stories that will spark your students to be life-long readers.

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