Pleasure+Reading

 Reading for Pleasure [|…]

Do you want to SPEED up your ESL learning? READ, READ, READ. This is the best way to become proficient in the lantuage. Step 1: Find reading material that you like - a good book is like a good friend... you want to be together! Step 2: Read often and push yourself past the hard parts - just keep reading. You will find that it WILL get easier week by week and if you DO read a lot, you will see fast improvement. If you don't read much, you will still progress, but it will be much slower.

Below you will find some reading ideas for you, but it is best if you pick out your own books to read. Plan to visit the Alameda County Library or a bookstore and pick out some books that interest you. You might talk to a librarian and ask if they can help you. When you find a book you are interested in, try to read a page of it. If you find many words that you do not know on one page, then you will need to try an easier book. You may want to try non-fiction books as well. You can look these books up on Amazon and "look inside" and there will be a description of what the book is about. You do not have to purchase the book, but you can request it on the Alameda County Library website.[] I will go over this in class :)

Here are some other booklists you can browse and you can see my list below that: [] [] [] = = =‍__ Level One Fiction: __ = =‍ Sacajawea, by Joseph Bruchac = =‍ The Friends, by Rosa Guy = =‍ 145th Street (short stories), by Walter Dean Myers. = =‍ Sarah Plain and Tall = =‍ __Level One Non- Fiction__ = =‍ Rosa Parks: My Story = =‍__ Level __ __Two Fiction__: The Clan of the Cave Bear, Jean Auel = =‍ The White Mountains, John Christopher = =‍ Johnny Tremaine, Esther Forbes = =‍ Jazz Country, Nat Hentoff T = =‍T he Call of the Wild, Jack London = =<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif;">‍ Animal Farm, George Orwell = =<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif;">‍ __Level Two Non-Fiction__: = =<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif;">‍ New Burlington: The Life and Death of an American Village, John Baskin = =<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif;">‍ Hiroshima, John Hersey = =<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif;">‍ The Upstairs Room, Johanna Reiss = =<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif;">‍ __Level Three Fiction:__ = =<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif;">‍ My Antonia, Willa Cather = =<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif;">‍ And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie = =<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif;">‍ The Firm, John Grisham = =<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif;">‍ Being There, Jerzy Kosinski T = =<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif;">‍T he Kitchen God's Wife, Amy Tan = =<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif;">‍ __Level Three Non-Fiction__: = =<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif;">‍ I know why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou = =<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif;">‍ Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer = =<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif;">‍ Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer = =<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif;">‍ Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela = =<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif;">‍ Nisa: The Life and Words of a Kung Woman, Marjorie Shostak = =<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif;">‍ The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank = =<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif;">‍ All Creatures Great and Small =