Imagine a struggling reader... who spends hours looking at anime... and dreams of visiting Japan...imagine him communicating with a student in Japan about school, dinner, holidays....
Imagine a reluctant reader...who races toward any conversation about NASCAR... and dreams of meeting Dale Earnhardt, Jr....imagine him communicating with a NASCAR driver about what it takes to face one's fears...
Imagine a struggling reader...who would rather be sent out of class and fail an assignment than have her peers discover that she cannot read the assignment... and dreams of people getting along instead of fighting...imagine her communicating with another high schooler who has the same frustrations...
Heck, why just imagine... Let's have them work together on a presentation about how students who struggled in school became successful adults or about how each of them celebrates their birthday.
Does anyone out there know any English speaking Japanese students that would like to work on a project about Naruto?
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Now we're talking. If you are looking for people like this you might want to start at the learning2cn.ning.com site where there are over 500 educators looking for things to do along these lines from all around Asia.
One thing that we have found powerful here at my school is allowing struggling readers and ESOL students to create podcasts. In a podcast you can say a word 100 times until you pronounce it right and nobody ever has to know! The student gets to 'redo' it as many times as they want it sounds just the way they want it to sound. All of a sudden we have ESOL students wanting to make digital stories and podcasts.
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