Name: Using Gemma HiLo Books and Other Easy Texts for Adult Learner Reading Fluency and Comprehension
Start: 2025-07-17T10:55:00-0500
End: 2025-07-17T11:55:00-0500

Thursday July 17, 2025 10:55am - 11:55am CDT

Room 109

Two cornerstones of successful outcomes for adult literacy programs is improved learner reading fluency and comprehension. Yet few literacy workers know about the way fluency supports comprehension, nor how reading fluency can be developed in-class with learners. This workshop will focus on the important fluency-comprehension relationship. Some simple, easy-to-use methodologies will be demonstrated using authentic, high-interest literacy-supporting books. Participant input and commentary will be encouraged and welcomed.

Speakers

Greta Gorsuch

Co-editor, Reading in a Foreign Language https://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/

Greta Gorsuch is Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics, Texas Tech University. An author of academic titles such as Second Language Course Evaluation (Information Age, 2016) and Using Theories for Second Language Teaching and Learning (Bloomsbury, 2024), she also writes original... Read More →

Thursday July 17, 2025 10:55am - 11:55am CDT
Room 109

Instructional Strategies

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2025 Iowa Adult Education and Literacy Summer Conference

Greta Gorsuch

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