Joan Lu
SESSION:
Easy Literacy Differentiation to Reach All Learners
About Joan
Joan has been teaching for 13 years and is licensed in both Teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) and Reading. Over the years, she has taught Kindergarten to college-aged students. She is a lifelong learner and is passionate about literacy, technology, and engagement. In her free time, she enjoys reading both professional books as well as YA books to recommend to students and teachers.
SESSION
Easy Literacy Differentiation to Reach All Learners
This session is for coaches, teachers, and educators who want an easy tool to create differentiated reading passages that provides opportunities to build collaboration and community while also checking for understanding of vocabulary and comprehension to engage and reach all students from grade 2 and up.
This tool can generate summaries, vocabulary terms, comprehension questions, and discussion questions. There are three main features of this tool: generate a reading passage, utilize an article or video, and text excerpts or PDF uploads. No matter which feature is selected, educators can choose the grade level and language output.
This session is for you if you want ideas on how to provide disciplinary literacy in content areas, increase engagement in class with discussions, increase collaborative structures to build classroom community, increase literacy opportunities for all learners, including but not limited to multilingual learners, neurodivergent learners, at/above grade level benchmarks, striving learners reaching towards grade level benchmarks, students with accommodations.
