TEFL to the Young

Learner
Lecture 3

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Teaching Reading & Writing to Young
Learners

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People don’t expect to even talk abou
t reading and writing to this situation
most programs focus on Speaking and
Listening

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 I don’t agree.

Reading & Writing must be introduced

and gradually built up in TYL programs.

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 Danger

Make sure the C are already

somewhat established in their own
FLA before introducing SLA.

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Cambodian Refugees

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C can be very interested in Reading
and Writing in SLA

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FLA and Literacy

p.66
My Story

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 Reading and Writing at School
Their oral backgrounds help Reading
and Writing.
Ex.
A: “Once....
C: “Once upon a time...”

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Deep vs. Shallow Orthographies

English is...
Deep

Spanish is...
Shallow

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 Deep vs. Shallow Orthographies

Teaching ABCs in English is just telling

them the names.You need to go
deeper.

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ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

A=/ae/, /e/, /a/

C=/k/ or /s/

Cough
Bough
Tough
Through
Though

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 ghoti
gh
/f/ in “enough”
o
/I/ in “women”
ti
/sh/ in “nation”

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How does that effect your planning?

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 Phonics
Helps

ex. songs, rhyming books, websites,

shows

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Between the Lions
Sesame Street
Super Why

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 Phonics Danger

Practice makes Perfect

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Perfect Practice makes Perfect

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 yC bring in useful and
transferable strategies from
their FLA:
spelling
sounding things out
comparing sounds and letters

A yC’s FLA background can

vary. Don’t forget Cambodia.

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 Reading Activities with yC
(sub-skills)

Learning to decode familiar written language

Learning to match spoken and written forms
Word cards are you ready?

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Word Card Activity
p. 70

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make your own posters

use your creativity and

Posterazor as a tool

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 yC and reading
(& writing)

Reading and writing integration

examples:

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 yC and reading
(& writing)
word Level Reading
memory matching games that match
vocab cards!
pictures with words

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Sentence Charts

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Sentence Charts

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 yC and reading
(& writing)
Posters on display in class
Everyday Vocabulary on the
walls

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yC and reading

questions?

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 oC
& reading
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use your libraries!

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 oC are reading
Detectives
Skim & Scan
Correct sentences
Check back to see if statements are
true or false

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 oC are reading
Detectives
Teach them these reading skills, give
them lessons and activities that teach
them these reading skills.

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 oC and reading
Clues clues clues
Rhetorical types: is this a question or
a statement? Past or present?
Phonological clues
Dictionary work is good
Think of your own personal list of
reading strategies

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oC are Detectives

Reading and writing integration

examples:

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Sentence Charts

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oC and reading

questions?

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yC and oC
in writing

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 yC and writing
Emergent writing
(ex. Fig 6.2 p75)
Copying
Orthography practice
Parents and teachers must
model it.

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 yC and writing
word snakes
mixed up words
puzzles
finger writing
simple ‘gap-fill’ exercises

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 yC and writing

matching pictures with

words

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 yC and writing
doesn’t this look like
reading activities?
They are, they are very
integrated.
Don’t separate them.

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 yC and writing

Examples:
p. 77 extracts a, b

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 oC
& writing
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 oC and writing

eventually things start to

get ‘freer’.

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 oC and writing

captions in speech bubbles in a group

cartoon story
writing instructions, scripts, shopping
lists, recipes, puzzles or simple diaries

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 oC and writing
introduce genres:
mysteries, fantasy,
adventure, etc.

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 oC and writing
compare/contrast
descriptive
narrative
persuasion
PREP

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 oC and writing

they then start producing

their own work

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oC and writing

the iterative process

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oC and writing

word processing

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oC and writing

portfolios

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 oC and writing
where are they going to put
these iterative pieces of
work?

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 oC and writing
in big folders
• physical or digital
in a big pile
• physical or digital
on the web

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oC and writing

questions?

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resources of reading lists

IUSD
http://www.iusd.org/teacher_resources/EnglishTeachersResources.html

OPRAH
http://www.oprah.com/packages/kid-reading-list.html

List of Lists
http://people.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/lists.html

Caldecott and Newbury Award lists

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbery_Medal

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