Reading Level: 0.5 to 0.9 | Grades: Teen and YA | Lexile: HL60L to HL190L
Welcome SLIFE™ was created for English-learning teens who may be migrant students, refugees, or students who, for other reasons, have had limited or interrupted formal education. While the reasons behind each student's gap in schooling may differ, their needs as they start over are similar. Built around five genres and 20 key topics, the library pairs an emergent-level nonfiction book with a fiction story for each topic, so students see a skill explained and then see it put into practice. A comprehensive instructional guide, including lesson plans, vocabulary instruction, strategic reading questions, and assessments, supports the collection, along with 200 content-related vocabulary cards (10 words per topic) to build the vocabulary striving readers need most.
Genres and topics include:
Want the bigger picture on who SLIFE students are and why they need a different approach than other newcomers? Read our blog post, Understanding SLIFE: The Newcomer Subgroup Schools Cannot Afford to Overlook, which explains the learning-paradigm gap SLIFE students face and names Welcome SLIFE™ as one of the curriculum options built for exactly this population.
