Low Level ESOL - Teaching Approaches

• Balanced Literacy Instruction – five principles to create successful classes for low-literacy students
• Language Experience Approach (LEA)
  • The Language Experience Approach and Adult Learners
  • Understanding LEA
  • Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAMdcyL1RRU

• Multiple Strategies:
  • Classroom Strategies for Low-Literacy ESL Instruction
  • Strategies for Teaching Adult Refugees in the ELL Classroom
• Teaching English Language Learners who are Emergent Readers – a LINCS ELLU online course.  
• Total Physical Response (TPR) - teaching language or vocabulary concepts by using physical movement to react to verbal input
• Whole-Part-Whole through Learner-generated Text: Building literacy with adult emergent readers. - This 30- minute video illustrates the whole-part-whole language approach to teaching literacy, using a learner-generated story of a shared experience and demonstrating activities to develop beginning literacy skills.