Dale Webster - Language Support for Multilingual Learners During a Phonics Lesson Sequence (ORTIi 2024 Virtual Literacy Symposium)

Description:

During the ORTIi 2024 Virtual Literacy Symposium, Dale Webster introduces and provides the rationale for each step of CORE’s explicit phonics lesson sequence. The importance of this explicit phonics lesson sequence to multilingual learners’ successful reading acquisition will be the focus of this presentation. Multilingual learners learning to read in English may need additional language support during phonics instruction to understand the words that they are learning to decode. Specific instructional techniques to support language development as they relate to blending, dictation/guided spelling, and reading decodable text will be modeled and practiced. Myths about decodable text will also be addressed.