Video/Webinar

Teaching Foundational Reading Skills for Adult ESOL Learners with What’s Next?

June 2025

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ELL/ESL/Citizenship

The research is clear: explicit instruction of foundational reading skills works for adults learning English. What’s more, there is an effective phonics-based reading series available, specifically designed for literacy-level and low-beginning adult ESOL learners.

This webinar focused on the instructional sequence and steps in our What’s Next? series of books that build learners’ knowledge of life and work skills through engaging and relatable stories.

Explore effective whole-part-whole reading instruction to contextually build students’ foundational reading skills in phonemic awareness, phonics, syllable types, and more.

Perfect for anyone who already uses What’s Next? or is considering a new foundational reading course for ELLs.

Presented by: Lia Conklin Olson

Learn more about our What’s Next? series of books.