Transcript Balanced Literacy - Window to the World Free ESL/ESOL

Church Based ESL
Leslie Watson Eubank
Management
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Forms
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Placement Testing
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Promotion Flyers
Registration
Online Reading Test
Printed Test
Information Data
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Quia.com – Make online quizzes, keep records & send
emails to your students.
Recruit Volunteers
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Teachers
Tutors
Homework Helpers
Child Care Workers
Young Children’s
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Registration Greeter
Bus Driver
Hospitality Snacks
Data Entry
Meetings and Training Sessions
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Plan 6-weeks prior to start, mid-year; and end-of-year
Training materials
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Trainer
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Orientation to the program
Training for class
Christian Literacy
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Free Online Training
Wm. E. Kofmehl, Jr., Ph.D. trainer
Video
Beyond our Borders – Doris D. Edwards
Six Classes
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Preliterate
Literacy
Low-intermediate
Intermediate
High-intermediate
Conversational English
Literacy Series
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Riggs Institute: Phonograms & CD
Look at Me Read [40 Common Words]
Superphonics Bingo
From Sound To Sentence
The Light is Coming – 4 sections [1000
Words]
American Bible Society Readers
Window to the World
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12 topics
Jesus film clips
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Loan DVD
Online
Expanded Low-intermediate Life Skills
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www.leslie2k.com
Lessons have Internet Audio Readings
and Practice Exercises
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2 additional lessons: Money/Banking and City Bus
God and Man: Telling the Story
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Intermediate class
35 Bible Lessons
Conversational English
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Current Events
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free newspapers
Online news article
Google Search
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ESL Conversational English
Topic Search
Books:
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Conversation: Inspirations, Strategies, and Surveys
Importance of Phonics
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A large body of evidence shows the importance of teaching letter sound
patterns and phonemic awareness to English-speaking children learning to
read. This has been expanded to include adult readers.
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NRP (National Reading Panel), 2000 – monolingual children
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NLP (National Literacy Panel on Language Minority Children and Youth), 2006;
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ABE (Adult Basic Education Report-National Institute for Literacy, 2002)
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Hilferty, 1996; Mullady-DelliCarpini, 2004 ELS adults (little formal edu)
Critical skill! Comprehension First
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Throughout recorded history
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Locations in the brain –
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No record of infants speaking before they comprehend
Comprehension is in the Wernicke’s Area of the temporal
lobe.
Speaking is in the Broca’s area is located in the left frontal
lobe.
Why not translate?
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lies…lies…lies!
James J. Asher, Ph.D.
How to Become a Prize-Winning Language Instructor
2005 SE Regional TESOL
Break
Pre-literacy – the Rank Beginner
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Illiterate in L1
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No knowledge of print or
symbols
Unfamiliar with
alphabet for L2
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Total Physical
Response [TPR]
Introduce “explicit
phonics”
Instruct use of paper,
pencil
Dictate how to draw
letters
Recite sounds while
writing letters
Phonological Processing
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Phonological Awareness (sound only)
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Syllabic awareness
Onset-Rime awareness
Phonemic awareness
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Phonics – sound and the written letter
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sh = /sh/ sound,
boat = two vowels together, the first says it’s alphabet
name and the second is silent.
Right Brain Teaching
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Total Physical Response [TPR]
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Hoola Hoop
Spatial Concepts
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Prepositions of place & direction
Right Brain Teaching
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Total Physical Response [TPR]
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Hoola Hoop
Right Brain Teaching
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Spatial Concepts
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Prepositions of:
place
direction
Mapping
“language-body”
conversations
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Make Meaning for L1
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Create the experience
TPR
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Adults outperform kids in remembering words
when TPR routines are taught
“Getting Up” Routine
Clock Face – “Relia”
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Shape - Circle
Numbers
L2 Learners are ‘class leaders’
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Oral skills
Participate in demonstrations
Learn “phonics” [apply to speaking]
Used in helping L1s
Phonogram “O”
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/o/ is a circle letter. Draw a circle. Start at 2
on the circle go up and around to the dotted
line past 10, 8, and set your letter on the
bottom line. Continue up past 4 and stop at
2.
Say with me:
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ah [odd] – o [over], oo [do], aw [cost].
Write and Recite.
A – B – C Look at Me Reading
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Teach the letters
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a, d, e, f, h, I, n, o, t,
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the, of, and, to, a, in
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Teach the words
Boxes: 6 rows, 3
columns
Top row
Left to right
Bottom row
Point and trace L to R
Teach the letter groups
Teach the words
A – B – C Look at Me Reading
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Teach the letters
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Boxes: 6 rows, 3
columns
Top row
Left to right
Bottom row
Point and trace L to R
A – B – C Look at Me Reading
2. Teach the letter groups
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Student spells the
letters
A – B – C Look at Me Reading
3. Teach the words
A – B – C Look at Me Reading
The Christian Literacy Series:
The Light Is Coming
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-Reusable basic textbook; 0 – 6th grade
reading level;
also available in red print on yellow paper,
which has been successfully
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used with a variety of reading disabilities
$20.00
The Christian Literacy Series 4 Books:
The Light is Coming
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Book One:
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Short vowels
Consonants
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c, m, n, t
b, d
r, h
s, p
Book Two:
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Teach & use capital
letters
Consonant blends
Window to the World
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Twelve topics
Expanded Life Skills
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Low-Intermediate CASAS
Two-week program
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Life Skills
Jesus Film Clip
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Clips are under 2 minutes.
Observation
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Overview question
Listen for Details
Reading & Written Work
God’s Truths
www.leslie2k.com
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