Reading for Newcomers

Stand-alone reading lessons aimed at lower-level students and covering level-appropriate topics and themes.

Target students

These lessons are for students with a lower proficiency level who need to develop their reading

skills. Newcomers are the primary audience for these lessons, but long-term English learners

and others who want to build their fundamental reading skills can benefit from them. Lessons in

this series targets WIDA Entering/CEFR A1 (12 lessons) and WIDA Emerging/CEFR A2 (12

lessons).

Key features

All lessons in this series are based around the following elements:

1. Level-appropriate texts: Reading texts in this series feature vocabulary and grammar suitable for the proficiency level of the students. This makes the challenge of reading an achievable and enjoyable one.
2. Meaningful context: Each reading text is placed within a meaningful context and supported by attractive visuals helping students to explore the content of the texts.
3. Range of reading skills: Lessons develop and practice their perceptive, selective, interactive, and extensive reading skills by completing a range of different pre-, during-, and post-reading activities.
4. Opportunities to respond: Each lesson in the series provides students with opportunities to respond to the content of the texts, both orally and in writing, and develop meaning.
5. Relevant topics: All lessons in the series cover an engaging topic that is relevant to the lives of students helping to make reading meaningful to them.