want adult reading GL1-2

http://www.resourceroom.net/Products/literacy.asp

Lots of these books are leveled to Laubach, as the author was a volunteer tutor for htem.

Here’s my attempt at a link:

Literacy Library

Great work!

Two suggestions:
(1) Try co-reading. Get something that your student would like to read, anything from the daily paper to the Bible to a job manual. Read it together; he reads everything he can, tries to sound out unfamiliar words, and you wait, count to three (or more) and then step in when he stalls.As you do this, the student will pick up more and more vocabulary and be more and more confident about sounding out.

2) Push to finish your present level and get into a higher level. Hold out the new, more interesting books as rewards for moving ahead.

Thanks.
We do what I’m used to calling “parallel reading” with occasional newspaper ads or headlines, public notices at the library,on bulletin board s, signs etc.for a few minutes during most tutoring sessions. I’m not certain if parallel reading is the same as co-reading but it sounds very similar.

You are right, the goal is moving to the next level (after basic mastery of currently progressing level). But I really suspect extra supplementary reading (something besides his Laubach skillbook and reader) he could do on his own at home helps us move toward that goal. Ergo, my frustration at not finding much besides Two for the Road. Guess I’ll just do as you suggest and remind him again that he will be able to read more adult books like that one when he is closer to finishing his current Level 2 book.

Actually, I did long-distance drive yesterday to the main county library before winter driving conditions hem me in (winter is definitely coming to my part of NV this week) to look at their adult literacy collection of easy reading books for beginning adult readers. ( NV public libraries have this neat online system accessible on one’s home computer so you can determine what they have and where, but of course there is no exact way to tell what approximate grade level each is (other than guessing by the book’s number of pages) for those books no longer listed in their publisher’s catalog—and I find most publishers’ catalogs frequently inaccurate in reading level estimates for new adult readers. And the public library nearby that we use for class in bad weather will put a hold on anything from there that I want and have it delivered free to our library! Gotta praise those libraries and librarians!) Still not much for his current level, but several selections from there will work right now for another of my Laubach adult students who has fewer disabilities, just dyslexia in his case.

Maybe I should just write and self-publish via Kinko’s so we have more supplemental adult reading on his low level….

Also, at the last meeting we also parallel read (co-read) three math word problems from the Cambridge PreGED Exercise Book in Math Skills. The math word problems were just adding single digits, but I love spicing up class with something new for five minutes, and also killing two birds with one stone!