To modify the lesson to help ESL students it is possible to:

• Place the ESL students in a lower level reading group to allow them to work with easier text to improve vocabulary, fluency, and reading rate.
• Read aloud with the class.
• Provide the ESL students with a taped reading of the book prior to the lesson.  This allows students to both visualize and hear the words of the book.  The taped reading also allows them the extra time they may need to comprehend the book.
• Give ESL students Lit. Circle jobs that they have mastered so that they can experience lots of success before trying something new and harder.
• Use anything and everything with pictures so that the ESL student may see what he/she is trying to understand.
• Picture sorts, personal picture dictionaries, and drawing pictures for Word Wizard.
• Find and use a translation of the book in the ESL students' own language(s).
• Find websites that they could use to translate words.

• Have these students pair-up with a partner.  This allows them to not be responsible for the entire job.  The students can work together on it.  It is also possible to assign the partners two jobs, one being a favorite and the other being the assigned job.
• Assist students with the reading of the books.  Taped readings of the books also help the Special Learners of the class.
• Provide movement activities for the whole class to help keep the LD child focused.
• Provide lots of structure so that the child knows the daily schedule and what to expect next.