Reading
Recent Newsletter Articles
New Canvas Course Content for Teaching Reading to Adults: EBRI for Beginning ESL Literacy Students
ATLAS is excited to announce an important new addition to the Teaching Reading to Adults Canvas course: Module 6—EBRI for Beginning ESL Literacy Students. This module expands the reach of evidence-based reading instruction to support adult learners who are new to print and English literacy. Read More
Better Together: Combining Reading and Writing Activities, Part 2
In this follow-up to Part 1, written by Stephanie Sommers, Kristine Kelly shares a lesson from her Summer Institute session that demonstrates how reading, writing, speaking, and listening can work together to deepen comprehension, build communication skills, and prepare for more complex writing tasks. Read More
Better Together: Combining Reading and Writing Activities for Greater Learning
Research tells us that students who read a lot tend to be better writers, and students who write tend to be better readers. When taught and practiced together, these two skills create a powerful cycle of literacy as each skill strengthens and complements the other. Read More
Goodbye Lexile, Hello ATOS: Shifts in Measuring Quantitative Text Complexity
No Lexile? No problem. The ATOS Analyzer makes it simple to check quantitative text levels for your learners. Read More
A Story of Leveled Readers
In response to the disappearance of the Bow Valley readers for beginner-level learners, ATLAS and Immigrant Welcome Center partnered to create additional leveled readers for practitioners to use with students in their multi-level classes. Practice test questions are available at the higher levels. We hope these resources are beneficial! Read More
Bow Valley Readers – An Update!
Many Beginning English educators are asking, “Where have the Bow Valley Readers gone?” They've been sunsetted, but keep reading to gain access to some of the originals and another collection of helpful literacy readers. Read More
abc English: Resources for Beginning ESL Literacy
"I've been in class for a long time, and this is the best I've ever learned. I'm really learning how to read." (Sallamatu, EL 1-2) Would you like to know which resources Sallamatu’s teacher is using? Keep reading to learn about abc English and why we choose to highlight it! Read More
New Canvas Course: Teaching Reading to Adults (Self-Paced)
ATLAS is excited to announce the launch of a new self-paced Canvas course, Teaching Reading to Adults. This course offers a deep dive into evidence-based reading instruction (EBRI) for adults and provides a flexible, asynchronous learning opportunity, enabling participants to enhance their skills in assessing and teaching adult learners. Participants can earn CEUs while gaining practical tools for assessing and improving reading skills in alphabetics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Read More
Homophones in Isolation for the Adult Learner
Adult learners often wrestle with homophones as texts and conversations are littered with them. Through nine units of shared homophone lessons, teachers control the pace, and the objective is intentionality because homophones are here (hear), there (their/they’re), and everywhere (wear)! Read More
Information/Media Literacy: More Important Than Ever!
Don't believe everything you read! Information is coming at our students at a very rapid pace from many different sources. With that in mind, it is more important than ever to give them the strategies and tools to effectively analyze and evaluate all of this data. Read More