Teaching English Language Litera

TELL ALL

Teaching English Language Literacy for All Language Learners

Welcome to the site of the TELL ALL course at David Yellin College of Education English Dept.

To register, call Haim Ilouz, Continuing Education Dept: 02-658-7528

This is the second year of this course, which has been designed to provide English teachers and tutors with a tool-kit of methods for teaching literacy skills (reading, writing, and access to English) to the full spectrum of English learners - EFL or native speakers, with language learning issues (dyslexia) or not, slow learners or gifted.

The course dates are Thursday July 1 - Sunday July 18

The summer 2010 course will comprise nine class days plus one day of ETAI pre-conference workshops,
Monday July 12 at David Yellin, participation required, no fee for course participants.

There will be a two-day break to enable participants to attend the International ETAI Conference in Jerusalem:
Tuesday-Wednesday July 13 -14

9:00 - 2:30 (6 academic hours with breaks):
9:00-11:30 Elana (Eclectic Approaches to Literacy);
11:30-2:30 Fern (The Hickey Method, a structured, phonetic, multi-sensory system)

David Yellin College of Education, Beit Hakerem, Jerusalem (can be reached by any bus that travels along Herzl Blvd. from the Jerusalem central bus station)

Building Dalet, room to be posted

Course Instructors: Elana Rechtman and Fern Levitt

	9:00-11:30 Eclectic Approaches to Literacy - Elana		11:30-2:30 The Hickey Phonetic Method - Fern
Date	Subject	Material	Subject	Course Booklet Material
Thursday July 1 .	TELL ALL Course Introduction Reflection on Reading and Literacy	Reflection on Reading What is Reading? Quotations Elana's Notes: TELL ALL Day 1	Background and Intro to the Hickey Method: Who is it for? Why does it work? The Hickey Lesson Plan Structure "Teaching New Material" Lesson 1a	Hickey Course Book Hickey Website
Sunday. July 4	Pre-Foundation Benchmarks for Emergent Readers	Task: Create Lesson Plan Pre-Foundation Benchmarks ABC ideas Elana's Notes: TELL ALL P.F. Benchmarks for Emergent Readers	Organizing your Hickey materials "Teaching New Material" Lesson 1b	Please bring to class: your printed course book a large binder, package of 7 section dividers, 25 nylon pockets 25 white labels
Monday July 5	"Musts" and Later Stages	Musts for Reading Readiness Stages of Reading Development Glossary of Reading Terms How to Teach Reading Comprehension "The Pancake Man" sample text Task: Listening as a Pre-reading Activity (with texts) Elana's Notes: TELL ALL Reading Stages	Stories, Wordlists, Games Demo Lesson: Lesson 2 Hickey Lesson Order - continued from Lesson 2
Tuesday July 6	Approaches to Literacy	History of Reading Cathy Puett Miller on Literacy "Musts" Review Mini-dictionary: Matching Reading Terms to Definitions Task: Early Fluent Readers Elana's Notes: TELL ALL Literacy Second Language Teaching Methods Elana's Notes: TELL ALL Approaches to Reading Instruction	Hickey Lesson Order - continued Writing Hickey Lesson Materials (story, word list, game)	Lesson-writing assignment (story, word list, game
Wednesday July 7	Writing	Activities for Guided/Controlled Writing Diamond Poems Personna Poems Elana's Notes: TELL ALL Writing I More Activities for Guided Writing The Most Important Words writing activity Additional writing activities Things to Do After Reading A Book or Story Elana's Notes: TELL ALL Writing II	The Pink Rule Cards English Spelling Rules	English Spelling rule cards for older learners Scavenger Hunt
Thursday July 8	Weaker Learners and EFL (Needs and "recipes")	Boondoggle Childhood Memories Task: Activities for Weaker Pupils Teaching Weak Learners, Dorit Sasson How Do We Get Their Attention?, Ellen Hoffenberg-Serfaty Profile of the Slow Learner Elana's Notes: TELL ALL Weaker EFL Learners	Games Hickey Materials and Equipment Lesson Planning	Assignment: Plan and prepare a lesson to teach a classmate tomorrow
Sunday July 11	Differential Teaching in Mixed Ability Classrooms	Brain-Friendly Learning Class Elana's Notes: TELL ALL Differential Teaching	Practice Teaching a Hickey Lesson to a Classmate Creating Learning Centers for Mixed-Level Classrooms	Please bring to class all the materials you need to teach your planned lesson - pens, whiteboard, pencils, markers, cards, sheets, etc.
Monday July 12	ETAI Preconference Workshops at David Yellin
Tuesday- Wednesday July 13-14	ETAI Conference
Thursday July 15	Assessment of Reading and Writing	Guidelines for Appropriate Assessment Assessment in the EFL Classroom Profile Rubric for Emergent Readers Elana's Notes: TELL ALL Assessment	Assessment, On Beyond Hickey Learner self-esteem and behavior	On Beyond Hickey Assignment: Practice-Tutoring and Child Study
Sunday July 18	"Putting It All Together": Integration of Concepts and Lesson Planning Finding the appropriate balance of approaches for each learner or group TELL ALL Course Summary

Learning Centers - Activities for the Heterogeneous ESL Classroom