Program: Online Courses
Audience: All Educators K-12
Dates: 5/26/2023 to 6/24/2023
Next Generation Learning Standards expects nurturing lifelong practices of readers but what can we do for students who struggle with understanding text? Literacy skills are applied, whether it is a narrative or expository text, historical document or visual, a mathematical model or constructed response problem, a lab experiment or the Periodic Table, an artwork or musical composition, or a marathon video, etc. In this course, teachers are invited to experience the techniques and tools for effectively supporting comprehension before, during, and after reading tasks, and reflect on application in their classroom setting to build comprehension and 21st century literacy skills.
Objectives: Participants in any grade and content area will acquire specific literacy strategies and techniques:
- Preview and activate prior knowledge with discussion and activities to set the purpose for reading
- Make and confirm predictions, inferences, and conclusions
- Monitor understanding and organize information by study guides, graphic organizers aligned to text structures, and questioning
- Support comprehension and active processing by note-making, foldables, writing, summarizing
- Build fluency and prosody (expression) by echo reading, reader's theater, and rate monitoring
- Expand vocabulary with context clues, visualization, and frames
- Correct comprehension difficulties, model fix-up strategies, and facilitate strategy groups
- Differentiate with student grouping protocols such as reciprocal teaching, book clubs, literature circles, Socratic Seminar