Reading

Optimizing Reading Comprehension for MLLS: 6 Strategies

When my school first adopted the Reading Workshop, a teaching method in which the goal is to teach students strategies for reading and comprehension, I became a proponent of this approach and worked to find ways to adapt it to the needs of multilingual learners (MLLs).

Author: Judie Haynes

3 Lessons From a Teacher of Reading Teachers

What can we learn from someone who teaches current and future reading teachers? A lot, as it turns out.

Author: Barbara Gottschalk

Are Your EL Expectations High—or Hurried?

January brings the beginning of a new year and an opportunity to start fresh.

Author: Barbara Gottschalk

Navigating the Reading Wars With English Learners

If you follow literacy issues, you have probably heard of the Reading Wars.

Author: Barbara Gottschalk

A Can’t-Miss Vocabulary Activity

“How do you teach vocabulary to your ELs?” Darlyne de Hann asked this question at the end of her 5 October TESOL blog.

Author: Barbara Gottschalk

STEM and ELT: 7 Science Reading Strategies

There is growing interest in how to teach English learners (ELs) science in the general education classroom especially because science contains a lot of reading and academic language.

Author: Darlyne de Haan

4 Ways Teachers of ELs Differ From Reading Teachers

“Are you teaching them to read?” asked the custodian as she unlocked the door to my classroom.

Author: Barbara Gottschalk

What’s Different About Teaching Second Language Reading to Adults?

Early in my career, I used to be jealous of reading teachers.

Author: Barbara Gottschalk

Create Your Own Leveled Readers

As English language teachers, we often struggle with finding the right articles or reading materials for our classes, and when we finally do find something that matches our content needs, we then realize that the lexile level may be right for some students, but not for others.

Author: Brent Warner

5 Ways Phonics Is Different for English Learners

Chalkbeat Philadelphia recently published a great article about the difficulties young English learners (ELs) in the Philadelphia School District were facing during the pandemic.

Author: Barbara Gottschalk

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