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Text-based Activities that Engage Multi-Level Students in Reading
Session 4 on Saturday, March 12, from 2:15-2:45PM (PT)
Using a sample text about forgiveness, this presentation describes how teachers can get students involved in both learning to read and reading to learn. Each activity will be explained with options for lower and higher level students in the same class, and with options for in-person and online learning.
Kitty Barnhouse Purgason is professor emerita of TESOL at Biola University. She has a PhD in Applied Linguistics from UCLA. She has lived, studied, served, or taught in India, Russia, Korea, China, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Mauritania, Indonesia, Kuwait, Oman, Vietnam, Spain, and Tajikistan, She is a three-time Fulbright fellow and a U.S. State Department English Language Specialist. She is the author of Professional Guidelines for Christian English Teachers (William Carey Library).