by Julie Slack | Feb 9, 2024 | Adult Basic Education (ABE), Phonics, Pronunciation, Reading, Resources
Presenter: Lisa M. Brooks, Ed.D. These materials provide an overview of the Anglo-Saxon, Latin, and Greek layers of the language, focusing on how to teach skills from the Latin layer. The slides also introduce morphemes and ways to practice them in isolation and in...
by Julie Slack | Mar 1, 2023 | Adult Basic Education (ABE), English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), Reading, Resources
Presenter: Brooke Machado & Medhin Gebreslasse This workshop covers practical classroom routines that have successfully worked with adult emergent readers in the Adult Basic Education (ABE) classroom. The workshop materials include strategies that engage adult...
by Julie Slack | Nov 17, 2021 | First Literacy Grant Projects, Reading, Resources, Writing
First Literacy Grant Funded Project Established in 2003, the ESOL Program increases self-sufficiency of ATASK clients, all Asian women who are survivors of domestic violence. The program serves at least 30 women each year, 30% of whom are residents of ATASK’s shelter...
by Julie Slack | Nov 17, 2021 | First Literacy Grant Projects, Reading, Resources
First Literacy Grant Funded Project Original Goal: Students in intermediate to upper level ESOL classes, after choosing a topic of interest, will meet weekly to discuss works of fiction and non-fiction. They will benefit through improvement of subject content...
by Julie Slack | Nov 17, 2021 | First Literacy Grant Projects, Reading, Resources
First Literacy Grant Funded Project This project focused on creating a space where ESOL students could read extensively and for pleasure. The lead teacher, Caitlin Jacobs, helped students select whole books at their appropriate reading level and to cultivate the habit...
by Julie Slack | Nov 17, 2021 | First Literacy Grant Projects, Reading, Resources
First Literacy Grant Funded Project To help their ESOL students achieve greater comfort with reading in English, and to address students’ psycho-social needs, ATASK chose two readers as the basis for reading instruction and discussion: The Door Is Open and Flor’s...
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