Comprehension Connections-Spring12
 

Comprehension Connections: The Power of Comprehension Strategy Instruction, 2 - 8

PWP 599-01

Location: Bucks County IU

Dates/Times: Wednesdays, Feb. 22, March 7, April 4, 5:00 - 8:30 p.m.

                      Friday, March 23, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

                      Saturday/Sunday, March 24 and 25, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

                      Saturday, April 28, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. - Literacy Conference with Ellin Keene

                       plus 6 independent hours

Coordinators: Chris Kehan and Angela Watters

Registration Deadline: February 8, 2012

Teaching reading strategies to young readers so that they use them successfully and independently is no easy task.  This course will help you create conditions for a successful reading classroom in which children will develop high levels of understanding by making comprehension instruction visible and tangible.  Participants will learn how to get their students to comprehend more deeply and apply strategic thinking to all texts they encounter in their literate lives.

  • Create conditions for success in a reading classroom
  • Identify the components of an effective daily read-aloud
  • Create notebooks in which students record their thinking about texts
  • Identify comprehension strategies
  • Reinforce each strategy on a variety of levels by building bridges between the concrete and the abstract
  • Develop reading strategy lessons from grade level approprate children's literature
  • Manage and maintain reading conferences
  • Create tools for assessing student reading growth

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