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For my native Farsi-speaking student, I found it helpful to use vocabulary lists that I printed using a D'Nealian font I found on the web. I also had her use a second-grade manuscript book for vocab. practice. It helped isolate those letters she was forming from "creative" starting points . . . and ...

Like the previous two posters, I too have had trouble finding relevant material to use with a student who is only semilitterate in her own language. Hoping to find something with true emotional meaning for her, recently we did a unit she really liked about job applications. I downloaded blank applic...