Read with ASL YouTube channel: Dual-language videos designed to build English reading comprehension and American Sign Language skills. Example: Emotions: ASL & words!
Specific books:
Oxford Picture Dictionary (English/other language)
Oxford Picture Dictionary for Kids (English/other language)
Oxford Picture Dictionary for the Content Areas
Oxford Picture Dictionary Content Areas for Kids
Children’s Visual Dictionary (Oxford University Press)
NTC’s Dictionary of Everyday American English Expressions Presented According to Topic and Situation
McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Scholastic 240 Vocabulary Words Kids Need to Know by Linda Ward Beech
504 Absolutely Essential Words by Murray Bromberg, Julius Liebb, and Arthur Traiger
General resources helpful to English language learners:
Books with “conversational phrases”
Books with “first words”
Books with “idioms”
Books with “phrasal verbs”
Coloring books for children
Dual-language books (two languages shown together)
Flashcards (illustrated words)
Pictionaries - Free pictionaries: https://englishbyeye.org/multiple-meaning-pictionaries
Vocabulary books (with cartoons, illustrations, pictures)
Tutoring resource re: Deaf adults
Reading tutoring with ASL: Online one-on-one tutoring in reading comprehension, using ASL to communicate. Deaf/HH students need to know some ASL to fully communicate with the instructor. The instructor is a hearing person, fluent in ASL, with over 40 years of teaching experience, of which the last 14 years has been working one-on-one with Deaf adults. Instructor: Chris Wixtrom, M.S. Education: TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), Producer, Read with ASL YouTube channel (and websites: englishbyeye.org and aslaccess.org), 1997 Founder, ASL Access. Reading levels from elementary to university. Focus is on reading comprehension skills and vocabulary growth. For more information, contact: chrisgivesclarity@gmail.com. Some Vocational Rehabilitation agencies cover this tutoring, as it rapidly develops English literacy helpful to vocational goals.