Identifying Low-Literacy ESOL Learners and Building Community A Quick Tip

A new student comes into your class and sits down - what's their literacy level? Because many sites place students based on their speaking ability, but don't have a formal literacy assessment, it's possible for low-literacy learners to go unnoticed for quite a while! This means it's up to the teacher to very quickly determine whether any of their students have limited literacy in their first language so that they can give the student the help that they need. This video gives a quick tip for the first step: identifying any students who may have low literacy in their first language. If you'd like to know more, please reach out at [email protected].