---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <davidsk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [etni] Fwd: coursebooks What we do is very simple-we make our own materials. I have been doing that for years. I have been teaching in a Hareidi Yeshiva high school where my hakbatsa bet kids come barely able to read words and unable to read texts even at the 300 words level! There is nothing on the market for high school kids at this level, let alone appropriate for a yeshiva. So I developed two booklets that teach them to read independently and build their self confidence which is usually lacking. These kids don't get much in terms of secular studies-only 4 hours (classes) a day and English is not a priority. They usually get 4 hours a week in tet and yud and 3 hours in ya and yb, with no time for homework. In the end I get most of them to 3 points and occasionally a kids works hard enough to go to hakbatsa alef to do 4 or 5 points. Putting that together with my own computer programs and an occasional movie with English subtitles we get them through. Extra work, I grant, but rewarding when you see the kids make it. At least my kids don't have to do HOTS and literature. David Skolnick ************************************** ** Join ETNI on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/31737970668/ ** ETNI Blog and Poll http://ask-etni.blogspot.co.il/ ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org ** post to ETNI List - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** help - ask@xxxxxxxx ***************************************