How often do you truly support your students with their reading and writing? Be honest…(very honest!)… in your classroom, do readings ever happen without much exploration? And do writings ever feel like a way of just mopping up all that language you’ve been teaching? If you’re thinking yes, you’re not alone! Perhaps this happens because reading and writing are not as interactive as the other skills, and sometimes as teachers we don’t get stuck into the process with our students as much as we should. And unfortunately, leaving students to their own devices can cause a disconnect between how they read and write a text.

Let me ask you some more questions… let’s get stuck in! How aware are your students of different texts and the strategies they employ when reading or writing them? How can your students predict the information in a text before reading thoroughly?

How can they produce the relevant features of texts more confidently? How can your students become more active readers and how can they use their reading strategies to write more competently for their intended reader?

If I’ve got you wondering, sign up for this workshop where I will be exploring these questions, suggesting some basic frameworks and sharing some tips for teaching the two skills in conjunction. I’m not reinventing the wheel (!) but I’ll be offering my perspective on bridging the gap between the two skills.

Presented by Erin Vickerman – Teacher Trainer & ESOL Lecturer/Specialist.

Our Masterclass workshops are typically delivered in 90 mins.

At Gallery Teachers, we endorse the philosophy of building on your previous knowledge and experience as opposed to just imparting knowledge on you. 

Therefore, in order to prepare you for the webinar and help you activate what you already know about the topic, we will suggest two to four reflective questions for you to consider before you join the event.

You will also be given the opportunity to post your reflections, along with any questions you may already have at the pre-watching stage, to the discussion forum. 

The reflective questions, as well as ideas and shared experiences posted to the forum by attendees, will be used in the real-time Q&A session in order to generate an engaging and meaningful discussion, involving the presenter and teachers from around the world. 

After the event, the forum discussion will take on a life of its own and teachers will be encouraged to continue posting their experiences, reflections and questions related to the topic of the webinar. So, if you feel strongly about the topic, we will make it possible for you to take the discussion beyond the scheduled workshop and continue sharing your ideas with like-minded teachers and teacher trainers from other countries