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Improving Reading Comprehension Skills in Content Area Classes, T&L 900
Instructors: Jill Grzadzielewski & Laurie Stenehjem
Topics:
Language Arts &
Instructional Strategies
Audiences:
High School &
Middle School
Learn the reading comprehension skills that good readers use as tools, consciously or subconsciously, to help them make meaning from what they read. These strategies will not address decoding skills or the most basic of reading skills. However, they can be used to enhance what is already occurring in your classroom.
By learning these strategies, readers at all levels of competency are empowered to:
- become more proficient at making meaning
- comprehend text more fluently
- become more engaged in their reading
You will learn to teach reading strategies explicitly, using the gradual release of responsibility model. These reading comprehension skills will help your students to better learn your content area.
Through this online course, you will:
- Identify the proficient reader strategies.
- Examine the value of explicitly teaching comprehension strategies within your content area.
- Analyze the use of schema within your own reading practices.
- Design a series of lessons within your content area to teach one of the proficient reader strategies, using the gradual release of responsibility model.
NOTE: This course applies to the Middle School Endorsement as stated by the North Dakota Education Standards & Practices Board.
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| Online Course - 2 credits S/U grading
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Professional Development Credits: 2 - S/U grading UND Fee: $250 |
| Online Course - 2 credits Letter grading
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Professional Development Credits: 2 - Letter grading UND Fee: $250 |
About Your Instructors
Jill Grzadzielewski
Jill Grzadzielewski, MS, graduated from the University of North Dakota and the University of St. Thomas. She is a National Board Certified Teacher, who teaches 8th grade English at Valley Middle School in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Laurie Stenehjem
Laurie is currently working as the Teacher Support System Coordinator with the Education Standards and Practices Board in Bismarck. She most recently worked as a Professional Learning Specialist for Professional Development for Educators at the University of North Dakota and as a consultant in the state in the areas of reading, professional learning communities, mentoring and instructional coaching. Previous to that she was a Resident Teacher Mentor at Valley Middle School in Grand Forks and a faculty member in UND's Teaching and Learning Department. As a mentor, Laurie worked in regular classrooms with first-year teachers who were also pursuing their master's degrees from UND.
