Date: Feb. 11 Building Literacy with Adult Emergent Readers (30 minutes)

   

This class focused on adult learners and is focused on reading, but also practises speaking in order for students to know how to apply what they’ve learned. The teacher reads out the text in order for students to connect the spoken words with the written word. The students read and speak the words and repeat multiple times what they are reading to solidify what they are learning. When going over the pronunciation, the teacher chooses specific words that sound the same or rhyme. She gets students up and moving by getting them to come to the board and create sentences together from the reading. The game that they play later in the class is great for recognizing the words that they are learning. The students use a fly swatter to hit words that are printed on the board and the first one to hit the correct word wins. The teacher later has the students work together in groups to spell the words, again cementing their understanding of the words. This class uses a variety of activities to engage students and help with their literacy and was very well planned and taught.