In this e-course, participants will examine effective strategy for reading comprehension in intermediate grades, and how it scaffolds across content, grade-level, and reading/writing genre. Approaches include text structure, reciprocal teaching, use of graphic organizers, literature webbing, and building background knowledge through the use of questioning. All strategies under study will include tools for implementation.
Course Outcomes:
- Design, differentiate and experiment with strategies that teach effective reading comprehension in intermediate grades.
- Scaffold individualized instruction across multiple content area, grades and reading/writing genre.
- Evaluate and justify the explicit instruction and teacher modeling methods behind effective reading comprehension curriculum.
- Teach reading comprehension through scaffolding strategies across multiple reading and writing genres in core content areas.
This course is 20 hours