Teaching Reading to adult ESL with Limited Literacy

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Teaching Reading to adult ESL with Limited Literacy

Teaching reading to adult English learners with limited literacy has its own challenges, especially when designing appropriate lesson plans and activities to engage the learners. This video will show educators how they can teach phonological awareness in teaching reading to adult ESL. Phonological awareness refers to the specific ability to focus on and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. Phonological awareness is the broad term used to describe sound awareness. Samples of phonological awareness are rhyming, tongue twister, syllables, and phonemic awareness