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Church Based ESL
Leslie Watson Eubank
Management
Forms– Promotion Flyers– Registration
Placement Testing– Online Reading Test– Printed Test
Information Data – Quia.com – Make online quizzes, keep records & send
emails to your students.
Recruit Volunteers
Teachers Tutors Homework Helpers Child Care Workers Young Children’s
Workers
Registration Greeter Bus Driver Hospitality Snacks Data Entry
Meetings and Training Sessions
Plan 6-weeks prior to start, mid-year; and end-of-year Training materials
– Free Online Training Trainer
– Orientation to the program– Training for class
Christian Literacy – Wm. E. Kofmehl, Jr., Ph.D. trainer– Video
Beyond our Borders – Doris D. Edwards
Six Classes
Preliterate Literacy Low-intermediate Intermediate High-intermediate Conversational English
Literacy Series
Riggs Institute: Phonograms & CD Look at Me Read [40 Common Words] Superphonics Bingo From Sound To Sentence The Light is Coming – 4 sections [1000
Words] American Bible Society Readers
Window to the World
12 topics Jesus film clips
– Loan DVD– Online
Expanded Low-intermediate Life Skills– www.leslie2k.com Lessons have Internet Audio Readings
and Practice Exercises
– 2 additional lessons: Money/Banking and City Bus
God and Man: Telling the Story
Intermediate class 35 Bible Lessons
Conversational English
Current Events – free newspapers– Online news article– Google Search
ESL Conversational English Topic Search
Books: – Conversation: Inspirations, Strategies, and Surveys
Importance of Phonics
A large body of evidence shows the importance of teaching letter sound patterns and phonemic awareness to English-speaking children learning to read. This has been expanded to include adult readers.
NRP (National Reading Panel), 2000 – monolingual children
NLP (National Literacy Panel on Language Minority Children and Youth), 2006;
ABE (Adult Basic Education Report-National Institute for Literacy, 2002)
Hilferty, 1996; Mullady-DelliCarpini, 2004 ELS adults (little formal edu)
Critical skill! Comprehension First
Throughout recorded history – No record of infants speaking before they comprehend
Locations in the brain –– Comprehension is in the Wernicke’s Area of the temporal
lobe.– Speaking is in the Broca’s area is located in the left frontal
lobe. Why not translate?
– lies…lies…lies!James J. Asher, Ph.D.
How to Become a Prize-Winning Language Instructor2005 SE Regional TESOL
Break
Pre-literacy – the Rank Beginner
Illiterate in L1– No knowledge of print or
symbols Unfamiliar with
alphabet for L2
Total Physical Response [TPR]
Introduce “explicit phonics”
Instruct use of paper, pencil
Dictate how to draw letters
Recite sounds while writing letters
Phonological Processing
Phonological Awareness (sound only)– Syllabic awareness– Onset-Rime awareness– Phonemic awareness
– oral f/i/sh
Phonics – sound and the written letter sh = /sh/ sound, boat = two vowels together, the first says it’s alphabet
name and the second is silent.
Right Brain Teaching
Total Physical Response [TPR]– Hoola Hoop
Spatial Concepts– Prepositions of place & direction
Right Brain Teaching
Total Physical Response [TPR]– Hoola Hoop
Right Brain Teaching
Spatial Concepts– Prepositions of:– place– direction
Mapping– “language-body”
conversations
Make Meaning for L1
Create the experience TPR
– Adults outperform kids in remembering words when TPR routines are taught
– “Getting Up” Routine
Clock Face – “Relia”– Shape - Circle– Numbers
L2 Learners are ‘class leaders’
Oral skills Participate in demonstrations Learn “phonics” [apply to speaking] Used in helping L1s
Phonogram “O”
/o/ is a circle letter. Draw a circle. Start at 2 on the circle go up and around to the dotted line past 10, 8, and set your letter on the bottom line. Continue up past 4 and stop at 2.
Say with me: – ah [odd] – o [over], oo [do], aw [cost].
Write and Recite.
A – B – C Look at Me Reading
1. Teach the letters Boxes: 6 rows, 3
columns Top row Left to right Bottom row Point and trace L to R
2. Teach the letter groups
3. Teach the words
a, d, e, f, h, I, n, o, t,
the, of, and, to, a, in
Teach the words
A – B – C Look at Me Reading
1. Teach the letters Boxes: 6 rows, 3
columns Top row Left to right Bottom row Point and trace L to R
A – B – C Look at Me Reading
2. Teach the letter groups– Student spells the
letters
A – B – C Look at Me Reading
3. Teach the words
A – B – C Look at Me Reading
The Christian Literacy Series: The Light Is Coming
-Reusable basic textbook; 0 – 6th grade reading level;
also available in red print on yellow paper, which has been successfully– used with a variety of reading disabilities
$20.00
The Christian Literacy Series 4 Books:The Light is Coming
1. Book One: Short vowels Consonants
c, m, n, t b, d r, h s, p
2. Book Two:– Teach & use capital
letters– Consonant blends
Window to the World
Twelve topics Expanded Life Skills
– Low-Intermediate CASAS– Two-week program
Life Skills Jesus Film Clip
Clips are under 2 minutes. Observation
– Overview question– Listen for Details
Reading & Written Work God’s Truths
