Tar Heel Reader

Hi everyone,

I teach English as a Second Language at the high school level.  I have a 16 year old student who has recently completed a special education assessment and was found to have a kindergarten reading level.  He can identify letters by name but has no connection between sounds and letters.  The assessment tests were done in Spanish (his native language) so his status as an ESL student could not explain the test results.

For the rest of this academic year, he will remain in my class.  It was suggested that I find websites to help him with literacy development and have him work on those during class. 

Does anyone have any suggestions for Tar Heel Reader books to use with him?  Books in English would be great but Spanish books would be great too.  It'd be better for him to develop literacy skills in Spanish and later transfer those skills to English.  There are so many books on here that I'm feeling overwhelmed in my efforts to find something interesting and appropriate for him.  So I thought I'd ask for suggestions.

Thanks in advance!

Sandra