This asynchronous workshop will outline techniques for teachers to improve their students' reading comprehension skills. The Reading Rope is a visual metaphor developed by Dr. Hollis Scarborough in 2001 to illustrate the various strands that must be intertwined for skilled reading to occur, which includes skills necessary for word recognition and language comprehension.
This workshop will focus on the language comprehension strand of the Reading Rope, and how it contributes to overall reading comprehension. Participants will understand the importance of building background knowledge, effective vocabulary instruction, and critical thinking skills (metacognition) in order to increase reading comprehension of nonfiction text.
PLEASE NOTE THIS WORKSHOP DOES NOT QUALIFY FOR CEUs.
Modules:
Module 1
-Welcome & Google Classroom tour
-Jen Burch, Fellow/OGA
-Pretest
Module 2
-How the Brain Learns to Read
-Activity: The Reading Brain
Module 3
-What is Reading Comprehension?
-Activity: Reflect on the Duke article: The Active View of Reading
Module 4
-Background Knowledge
-Activity: Read “Melting Ice Sheets” and design an activity to
activate background knowledge
Module 5 (Part 1 & Part 2)
-Vocabulary
-Activity: Google Form - Vocabulary Sorting Practice
-Activity: Read “Melting Ice Sheets” and select three Tier 2 words
and three Tier 3 words
-Activity: Select a Tier 2 word and use it in a Science context and a
Social Studies context
-Activity: Select 3 Tier 2 words to use in one sentence
-Activity: Brainstorm as many words as you can from the base
element <pel>
Module 6
-Syntax and Sentence Comprehension
-Activity: Sentence Scramble
-Activity: Kernel Sentence Expansion
Module 7
-Text Structure Knowledge
Module 8
-Inferencing
Module 9
-Metacognition: Comprehension Monitoring
-Activity: “Get the Gist”
Module 10
-Fluency
-Breakout Rooms:
¦ Word Sort
¦ Discuss as a whole group
Module 11
-Informal Assessments - Reading Comprehension
-Dibels
-Gates
-Cubed
-Putting it all together: Lesson Planning
-I do: Model planning a lesson
-We do: Plan a lesson together
-Activity: You do
¦ Plan a lesson on your own.
-Post-Test & Survey