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Tag Archives: reading comprehension
Reading Texts for Adult ELLs
Rob Sheppard
When it comes time to find a text for your next adult reading lesson, it can seem that everything you pick up is either Finnegan’s Wake or Charlotte’s Web, with none of the in-between that your students need. We need … Continue reading
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Tagged as adapted texts, adult ed, adult education, authentic texts, evergreen, extensive reading, graded readers, periodicals, reading, reading comprehension, Robert Sheppard
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Adapting Content for ELLs: What Non-ELL Teachers Should Know
Nathan Hall
A sad reality of being an ELL specialist in secondary schools is that our hardest working students are usually the ones who leave our program. We do our best to give them the skills they need to learn and demonstrate … Continue reading
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Tagged as ESL in mainstream, evergreen, Nathan Hall, reading comprehension, secondary education
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Teaching ELs to Summarize and Synthesize Texts
Judie Haynes
Good readers need to learn to summarize text in order to highlight the important information that they read. In my last blog, I talked about teaching ELs how to determine what is relevant in nonfiction texts. They also need to … Continue reading
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Tagged as evergreen, Judie Haynes, primary ESL, reading comprehension, reading strategies, teaching reading
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Helping ELs to Learn to Ask Questions During Reading
Judie Haynes
This blog is Part 3 in my series about teaching English learners reading comprehension strategies. Because good readers ask questions throughout the reading process, I will discuss how to help ELs acquire the skill of asking questions before, during, and after … Continue reading
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Tagged as evergreen, Judie Haynes, primary ESL, reading comprehension, reading strategies, teaching reading
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Making Connections to Improve EL Reading Comprehension
Judie Haynes
In my last blog, I talked about Reading Workshop and how well comprehension strategies work for English learners (ELs). Books such as Mosaic of Thought (Keene and Zimmerman, 2007), Reading with Meaning (Miller 2012), and Strategies That Work (Harvey and Goudvi … Continue reading
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Tagged as evergreen, Judie Haynes, primary ESL, reading comprehension, reading strategies, teaching reading, text connections
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