Hi Everyone,

What a great discussion with such varied and interesting posts.

I would just like to mention a wonderful resource for helping teachers 
learn how to teach reading.  Originally created as a 15-hour workshop for 
Fairfax County,Virginia,"Teaching Reading to Adult English Language 
Learners" is available now in a shorter version in the CAELA Guide for 
Adult ESL Trainers.  After a review of the research, practical 
implications are considered.

The workshop can be found at: 
http://www.cal.org/caela/scb/III_D_TeachingReading.pdf 

And the complete guide can be found at: 
http://www.cal.org/caela/scb/guide.html

This workshop has been held over a dozen times all across Virginia and has 
been extremely popular.  In fact, we have begun face-fo-face and online 
study circles to explore more in-depth the practice of teaching reading. 

Hope that this is helpful.

Nancy
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Nancy R. Faux
ESOL Specialist
Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center
Virginia Commonwealth University
3600 W. Broad Street, Suite 669
Richmond, VA 23230-4930
nfaux at vcu.edu
http://www.valrc.org
1-800-237-0178



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[EnglishLanguage 2518] Re: teaching comprehension       stragtegies for 
higher level learners (ABE and ESL)






Heide, 
I just used the first page with a low intermediate ESL class, drawing out 
their understanding of the behavior and connecting it to what they already 
know about their reading skills. As well, as we started reading some text, 
I related back to the habits that were relevent. 
This worked quite well, and it will be something students can use to 
assess their reading effectiveness. It also gives them some metalanguage.

Thanks! emma

Emma Bourassa
English as a Second or Additional Language/ Teaching English as a Second 
Language Instructor
ESAL Department
Thompson Rivers University
900 McGill Road. P.O. Box 3010
Kamloops, B.C. V2C 5N3
(250) 371-5895
fax 371-5514
ebourassa at tru.ca

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