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Publishers: Educational Resources

Ballard & Tighe Publishers

Ballard & Tighe publishes materials for ELLs. Their materials anticipate and bridge some language, conceptual, and vocabulary gaps that ELLs may have.

Great Source Books: Content Textbooks

A publisher offering content-area textbooks for higher grades written in simple English with lots of visuals.

National Geographic School Publishing

Differentiated themed sets, reading programs, magazines, and content-based fiction materials created for ELLs and struggling readers. Strong emphasis on understanding science, social studies, and math content while improving literacy skills.

New Readers Press

New Readers Press is a publishing division of ProLiteracy, the world's largest organization of adult basic education and literacy programs. New Readers Press offers a wide variety of materials, including ESL and citizenship resources, a weekly newspaper designed for beginning readers, and GED/life skills resources.

Pearson Longman Publisher: Penguin Readers

Penguin readers are books categorized by the number of words used in the story, from 300 to 3,000.