Presented  by  Margarita  Kurtz  Content  Developer  &  Specialist  in  

Adult  Educa=on  and  HSE  

Building  Basic  Literacy  Skills  for  Adult  Learners  

AGENDA  

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Reading  Instruc4on  for  Basic  Literacy  Further  Professional  Development  Sugges4ons!  

Reali4es  of  the  Mul4-­‐Level  Classroom  

What  is  reading?  Assessing  Basic  Level  Readers  

OBJECTIVES  

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1.  Components  of  Reading  

2.  Components  of  Reading  Instruc4on  

3.  Developing  Comprehension  Through  Reading  Instruc4on    

Discuss!  What  are  your  earliest  memories  of  reading?    [insert  some  photos  of  people  reading  together]  

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What  is  reading?  is  "a  complex  system  of  deriving  

meaning  from  print"  that  requires:  o  An  understanding  of  how  speech  sounds  are  related  to  print  

o  Decoding  (word  iden=fica=on)  skills  o  Fluency  and  Prosody  o  Vocabulary  and  background  knowledge  o  Ac=ve  comprehension  strategies  o Mo=va=on  to  read  

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