This webinar is aimed mainly at teachers to help you understand how you can use a structured literacy approach with your ESOL students. Our aim is for you to leave with practical knowledge you can use in your schools to help your young people become confident and proficient readers and writers and achieve success at school and beyond.

There are thousands of children at school for whom English is not their first language, especially in Auckland, but increasingly in all areas of NZ. In some schools this can be more than 80% of their students and it's not uncommon for schools to have a fifth of their students needing extra support with their English language learning.

It is therefore vital that those students also receive evidence-based literacy instruction to make efficient and effective progress. A structured literacy approach works incredibly well for these students. Hear from our two speakers on how they have been using structured literacy with the ESOL learners in their schools with amazing success.

Our speakers include:
Marianne Brown, Reading Intervention Teacher at Central Normal School in Palmerston North.
Rebecca Street, ESOL Teacher at Whakarongo School also in Palmerston North.

A Digital Toolkit of resources based on this talk is available from our website https://www.liftingliteracyaotearoa.org.nz/shop