Netrekker Thing #12

Netrekker or however you spell it, turned out to be somewhat helpful this past week. I have been focusing on effectively teaching reading to L1 students using content area readings.

It is extraordinarily difficult to teach reading at this level, especially in the content areas of science and social studies, because there just isnt much out there for high school students that is not targeted for an interest level of first or second grade children.

In the L1 classes i am teaching map reading skills right now and i found that i could search nettrekker even in this relatively esoteric skill area and was able to find a couple of pages written at the 3rd grade level. I found that i could write them down and simplify the grammar faster than i could create readings from scratch, which is what i have done in the past.

Even so it took about an hour to rewrite one page. And i suppose it breaks enough copyright laws to put me in jail. And it doesnt really help the L0 students in the class who dont understand the concept of reading. But it still seems an improvement.