Secondary School leadership teams, Interventionists, Classroom Teachers, Coaches
Inequities abound in accessing and understanding written text meant to enhance student learning in core subjects at the secondary level. Inadequate word recognition skills, lack of background knowledge, and a limited vocabulary can make reading and comprehending challenging text difficult for many students. Teachers can respond to these issues by creating an environment where students feel included, supported, and equipped to engage in adolescent reading and writing by incorporating literacy supports that enhance comprehension of content-area text.
This series will focus on evidence-based before, during, and after-reading strategies and techniques that enhance instructional delivery and engagement in the classroom, thus fostering increased access, deeper learning, and understanding of the content-area text in a safe learning environment. Participants are welcome to attend one, two or all three strategy sessions in the series. Please note that each session in the series is offered on multiple days to support participant access to the content. In addition, participants can access the sessions as an individual, as teams, or as an entire school staff to support implementation of the literacy strategies school-wide.
Participants are introduced to five effective strategies for engaging all learners within their classrooms.
A four-step instructional delivery model is introduced to participants to activate students’ comprehension of complex texts.
This strategy provides students with the opportunity to enhance written expression skills while supporting their comprehension of text across content-area subjects.
This session provides administrators, coaches, and other literacy champions to get some feedback and implementation guidance.
