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Content Area Literacy Learning Strategies Grades 3-5

Content Area Literacy Learning Strategies Grades 3-5

Objectives:

  • Learn and apply research-based strategy for teaching and facilitating literacy growth.
  • Select, design and plan using strategy specific for classroom implementation.
  • Facilitate comprehension and understanding through reading and writing.

Hours: 10

Content Area Literacy Learning Strategies Grades K-2

Content Area Literacy Learning Strategies Grades K-2

Objectives:

  • Learn and apply research-based strategy for teaching and facilitating literacy growth.
  • Select, design and plan using strategy specific for classroom implementation.
  • Facilitate comprehension and understanding through reading and writing.

Hours: 10

Universal Design for Learning and Reading Comprehension

Universal Design for Learning and Reading Comprehension

Outcomes:
  • Use new questioning approaches to move students deeper into text.
  • Compare and discuss the differences a variety of question types.
  • Design essential questions that leverage with text.
  • Apply questioning approaches to facilitate high-level responses from students.

Hours: 10

Evidence-Based Literacy Practices for Struggling Learners Grades 6-8

Evidence-Based Literacy Practices for Struggling Learners Grades 6-8

Objectives:

  • Analyze a range of best practices found in lessons, strategy guides, and open source e-resources. 
  • Apply the cycle of practice and reflection for adoption and adaptation. 
  • Align best practices to the needs of their students with plans for on-going assessment and modification.

Hours: 10

Literacy Learning Across Content Areas Grades 6-12

Literacy Learning Across Content Areas Grades 6-12

Objectives:

  • Learn research-based strategy for teaching and facilitating content-focused writing sessions in support of non-fiction text.
  • Understanding of reading and writing genre as applied to specific science and technical disciplines.
  • Facilitate comprehension and understanding through reading strategy and responsive writing.

Hours: 10

The FUNdamentals of Reading Instruction

The FUNdamentals of Reading Instruction

Objectives:

  • Learn about, and practice with, the FUNdamentals of reading instruction from kindergarten to grade 12.
  • Analyze and discuss effective reading comprehension and phonics practices.
  • Examine how vocabulary is supported in all content areas.
  • Understand how to use assessment data to plan for reading instruction.

Hours: 10

Brain-Based Literacy Strategies

Brain-Based Literacy Strategies

Course Objectives:

  • Read and discuss the latest research on literacy and cognition, for print and digital literacy.
  • Examine footage and lesson exemplars of classrooms that teach for optimal cognition.
  • Adopt and adapt strategies that use reading as a vehicle for "teaching to the brain" and optimal cognition.

Hours: 10


Literacy for All Subject Areas

Literacy for All Subject Areas

Course Objectives:

  • Review, examine, analyze and discuss the theory behind reinforcing literacy into all content areas.
  • Analyze exemplars in print and multi-media of teaching literacy in multiple content areas.
  • Select specific strategies to incorporate into existing lesson and unit plans.
  • Select specific strategies to implement in live classrooms to adopt and adapt with plenty of reflection in between.

Hours: 10


Peer Coaching for Adolescent Writers

Peer Coaching for Adolescent Writers

Course Objectives:

  • Understand and apply the "why" and "how" of the student peer coaching method.
  • Apply understanding by practicing the method with peers using generic writing.
  • Plan lessons in multiple genre areas with embedded peer coaching protocols and practices to incorporate into the writing process.

Hours: 10



Reading and Writing that Engages & Excites!

Reading and Writing that Engages & Excites!

Course Objectives:

  • Examine and discuss multi-media exemplars of engaging reading and writing protocols.
  • Read and discuss why and how reading and writing engages students at various stages of reading, writing, and language development.
  • Design lessons with embedded student engagement strategies.
  • Implement lessons, receive feedback and reflect to adapt as needed.

Hours:



Teaching the Writing Process

Teaching the Writing Process

Course Objectives:

  • Review and discuss the objectives of the writing process in deepening student skills in reading and writing.
  • Examine multiple strategies and the step-by-step process for utilizing the writing process routinely.
  • Plan and design lessons that incorporate the writing process, and/or repurpose lessons to incorporate the writing process.

Hours: 10



Reading Intervention for K-8 Students

Reading Intervention for K-8 Students

Course Objectives:

  • Use data to identify student reading levels, literacy gaps and needs.
  • Appropriate Lexile levels and high interest reading to students' reading. 
  • Design, scaffold, and differentiate lessons to close literacy gaps among students and bring up achievement.
Hours:



Classroom Strategies for Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking

Classroom Strategies for Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking

Course Objectives:

  • Analyze classroom summative and formative data to identify student deficits and deficit trends in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
  • Examine and discuss a range of strategies that incorporate all components and use them in lesson planning. 
  • Design, scaffold, and differentiate lessons to incorporate evidence-based reading, writing, speaking, and listening strategies.

Hours: 10



Building Reading Comprehension in Primary Grades

Building Reading Comprehension in Primary Grades

Course Objectives:

  • Use data to identify student reading comprehension gaps and needs.
  • Discuss a range of theory on reading comprehension.
  • Examine gaps and trends in student data to identify and address specific comprehension deficits.
  • Identify evidence-based reading comprehension strategies to embed in lesson plans for classroom implementation.

Hours: 10


Teaching Comprehension to High School Students

Teaching Comprehension to High School Students

Course Objectives:

  • Review and discuss the nature of reading comprehension and cognition in adolescents.
  • Analyze evidence-based strategies that work to increase reading comprehension in secondary students reading at or below grade-level.
  • Conduct assessments and analyze assessment data to align, scaffold, and differentiate strategies to deficits.
  • Research and select from a range of evidence-based strategies those to embed in planning and implement in the classroom.

Hours: 10



Teaching Strategies for Struggling Readers in Middle School

Teaching Strategies for Struggling Readers in Middle School

Course Objectives:

  • Review and discuss the nature of reading comprehension and cognition in adolescents with a focus on struggling readers.
  • Analyze evidence-based strategies that work to close reading gaps among students reading below grade-level.
  • Analyze assessment data to identify gaps and trends.
  • Select from a range of evidence-based strategies those most appropriate in closing achievement gaps and meeting the varied needs of struggling readers.

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Early Literacy: Teaching Beginning Readers

Early Literacy: Teaching Beginning Readers

Course Objectives:

  • Examine and discuss the larger picture behind the best practices of teaching beginning readers.
  • Analyze evidence-based practices for beginning readers, and select those most appropriate for teachers' own classrooms.
  • Analyze and discuss curricula for its appropriateness within teachers' own classrooms.
  • Apply best practices to lesson design for immediate implementation.

Hours: 10


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