Teaching ESL Reading
Course Description:
This course is designed to equip teachers with the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively teach reading to English language learners (ELLs). Participants will learn strategies for teaching English reading that focus on building core literacy skills such as listening, speaking, writing, and vocabulary development. The course will cover topics such as selecting age-appropriate texts, using visuals and multimedia elements in lessons plans, creating context clues to support comprehension, determining instructional objectives, scaffolding instruction for ELLs in diverse settings, assessing student learning styles and abilities, planning activities that foster engagement and collaboration between students, and utilizing a variety of evidence-based strategies when assessing student progress.
Course Objectives:
- Understand the challenges faced by ELLs when learning to read
- Learn strategies for scaffolding instruction for ELLs in reading classes
- Identify ways to build vocabulary related to reading topics
- Develop age-appropriate lesson plans that incorporate visuals and multimedia elements
- Explore ways of creating context clues to support comprehension by ELLs
- Analyze student language assessments in order to determine individualized instructional objectives
- Make use of evidence-based strategies when developing effective lesson plans for ELLs
- Design activities that promote engagement among ELL students in reading classrooms
- Understand how to evaluate student learning styles and abilities when teaching literacy skills
- Incorporate best practices for assessing student progress in courses related to teaching ESL reading
