Building Phonemic Awareness and Foundation Literacy Skills with Preliterate ELL Students

April 9, 2024 1:00-2:00pm ET Adult students who are just beginning their literacy journey while also still learning to speak English face a unique challenge. Preliterate students have no connection to the sound/letter correlation required to read. Many lack even basic print awareness connecting any symbol to a meaning. In this webinar, we will discuss helping preliterate students develop the skills necessary to begin learning to read and write in their new language. Presenter: Presenter: Steven Reid, Program Manager, Literacy Volunteers Charlottesville/Albemarle Link to materials: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/t1q0pi... This webinar is part of ProLiteracy's Teacher Training Plus project, funded by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation. For more information about Teacher Training Plus or other professional learning opportunities from ProLiteracy, visit: https://www.proliteracy.org/courses/ 00:00:00 Introduction by ProLiteracy 00:04:51 Introducing Steven Reid 00:6:45 Let’s start with some realism (warm-up activity) 00:12:24 Objectives 00:12:55 Reading and the brain 00:16:51 Phonemic Awareness 00:20:29 Identifying phonemes 00:26:10 Identifying vowel phonemes 00:28:40 Phonemic Awareness – recap 00:31:07 Activities for Phonemic Awareness 00:34:17 Phonemic Awareness – potential traps 00:35:28 Decoding and Word Analysis 00:38:36 Decoding Strategies 00:41:07 Blending & Segmenting Phonemes 00:42:09 Decoding Activity 00:44:41 Keep in Mind 00:45:38 Decoding – potential traps 00:47:32 Vocabulary 00:51:44 Strategies for teaching vocabulary 00:52:18 Vocabulary – recap 00:55:07 Remember & More Potential Traps 00:57:47 Final thoughts 01:00:12 Q&A and Thank you!