c.o.d. library esl/abe/ged faculty newsletter march 2013
resource of the month
History Today Historical Dictionary
The magazine History Today has a rich website full of resources some are freely available, others require subscription for access. The Historical Dictionary is one of the free tools included on the site. The dictionary is easily searchable and browsable by letter. Entries are concise just two or three sentences and provide links to related materials.
resources for instructors Many of the resources I purchase for the Library’s ABE/GED and ESL collections come from publishers who provide a wide range of materials to support instruction and student learning. While some supplementary materials are sold as part of a product bundle or as an addon, many others are freely available on publishers’ websites. It can be a challenge to find quality teaching materials online and often it’s not even easy to find these resources on an individual publisher’s website. One of my goals as the library liaison for ABE/GED and ESL is to find these resources, evaluate them and provide a centralized location for finding them. I believe that the faculty areas of the Research Guides will be a good venue for sharing an annotated list of teaching materials associated with products that we own in the Library. Look for this feature on the Guides in the near future. In the meantime, I would like to share some of the more easily identifiable
The dictionary includes information on resources with you here in this newsletter and to encourage you to share significant people, places and events with me links to content with which you’re familiar. Together, we can throughout world history. Simple create a useful database of easily accessible materials to support definitions and a focus on history teaching and learning. make this dictionary a useful tool for students who encounter terms with Oxford Bookworms which they are unfamiliar. Free reading resources for teachers including tests and activities
related to graded readers http://www.oupbookworms.com/teachersonly.cfm Macmillan Graded Readers Using Graded Readers in the Classroom ebook http://www.macmillanreaders.com/usinggradedreadersinclass Cambridge English Worksheets, lesson plans and word count for graded reader titles http://www.cambridge.org/us/esl/catalog/subject/project/custom/ite m2273009/?site_locale=en_US
new in the library The Mature Student’s Guide to Writing by Jean Rose
PE1408.R6758 2012
What Makes America Tick? a Multiskill Approach to English through U.S. Culture and History by Wendy Ashby PE1127.H5 A752 2012 College Knowledge for the Community College Student by David Louis Shoem LB2343.32 .S34 2011 Financial English by Ian MacKenzie PE1115 .M235 2012 Pronouncing American English: Sounds, Stress, and Intonation by Gertrude F. Orion PE2815 .O7 2012 English for Academic Correspondence and Socializing by Adrian Wallwork PE1128 .W323 2011 Take Care: Communicating in English with U.S. Health Care Workers by Nina Ito, Christopher Mefford PE1127.M4 I78 2011
Found a resource you’d love to have in the Library? Request it for the collection!
Schedule a Library tour, orientation, activity or librarian visit for your class just contact Jenn
Visit the ESL and ABE/GED Research Guides for student and faculty resources
Jennifer Kelley, ESL/ABE/GED Librarian * kelleyj@cod.edu * BIC 2814E * 630.942.2383