Hello everyone,
Today’s teaching tips come from “Bringing Literacy to Life”, a book written by Heide Spruck Wrigley, whose work made Literacy Forward possible, and Gloria Guth. In chapter 2 they give several tips for ESL literacy teachers. A few key tips are:
- Strive for genuine communication between yourself and your students
- Make your classroom into a community of learners where everyone feels welcome and all views are respected
- Link literacy with visual information
- Focus on meaning while helping learners see how language works
- Connect literacy to life
All of these tips are evident in the English Forward training and curriculum, but Bringing Literacy Life provides succinct explanations of these tips and how you can ensure that they happen in your classroom.
The entire book is available to download and read for free from www.cal.org. To access the entire document, click here.