Teaching Reading to Adult English Language Learners (ESOL Standards)

Goal of the workshop:
To increase skills in developing coherent, comprehensive, and appropriate reading lessons based on promising practices.

Objectives: :
At the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:

• Identify types of native language literacy
• Identify models of reading
• Describe knowledge and skills important to the reading process
• Identify elements of a good reading lesson
• Create a coherent, comprehensive, and appropriate reading lesson that develops each of the four skills important to reading.

Important Note: In order to attend this workshop, you will be asked to complete an on-line overview of Virginia's Adult ESOL Content Standards. Some of you have already done so or completed it in order to attend the Teaching Reading workshop held earlier this year. Others will need to do this before the workshop.

Audience: ESOL Teachers of all language levels
Duration: 7 hours