TESL Ontario Webinar

Are you spending time searching for online literacy resources for your learners? Do you look for reading resources that ideally can also incorporate writing and listening exercises? If so, please join us for this webinar.

This presentation will focus on presenting Commonlit as a free resource which is mainly utilized for its reading passages and exercises. However, it can also be used as a writing and a listening tool.

Our presenters will walk participants through the multiple ways this platform can be best used for educators and English language learners alike. Practical tips will be provided.

From this webinar, you will learn how to:

• best use Commonlit by utilizing all of its features,
• register learners and assign readings and writing prompts,
• make use of the listening activities provided, and
• use the ready-made diagnostic assessments that will help you better understand your students.

WEBINAR TYPE

Technology

CATEGORIES

Assessment, Lesson Planning/Ideas, Listening, Literacy, Online Teaching/Learning, Reading, Technology, Writing

TEACHING SECTORS

All sectors

PARTICIPANT LEVEL

No previous knowledge required

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

Gonul Turkdogan (she/her) holds a BA in Sociology with a minor in Women Studies and an MA in Applied Linguistics (TESL) from Brock University. As an adjunct faculty member of Niagara College's School of English Language Studies since 2013, she has taught a variety of EAP courses. Currently, she works as a peer tutor program coordinator in the Niagara College library, as well as an interpreter for Canadian Border Services.

Dr. Laureta Vavla has more than 18 years of experience in teaching communication, writing, and general education courses, as well as EAP, ESL, and ELT, in Canada and internationally. She is currently a professor at Mohawk College, manager of TESL Dialogue, and a member of TESL Ontario’s Social Content Committee and its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee.