…empowering secondary teachers to help middle schoolers meet the achievement demands on state reading assessments.
OVERVIEW
Intervening for Literacy Success with Middle School Students, Level 1 is a whole- and small-group, researched-based approach designed for students who find difficulty, as example, (1) extracting key ideas and details and (2) integrating knowledge and ideas. In this interactive six-hour session, teachers will expand their teacher toolkit with power-packed strategies that will awaken students’ critical thinking skills. The results will be mind-blowing. Students–even struggling readers–will begin experiencing active and reflective thinking through connecting, aligning, analyzing, drawing conclusion, evaluating, and synthesizing. What’s more: investing in these skills will pay high dividends because these skills, which are paramount for reading, are also required for effective writing. In essence, the reader and writer will become one!
Teachers will learn four power-packed strategies to help students comprehend informational text passages effectively.
- Formulating and concluding the Central Idea
- Deploying multiple comprehension skills simultaneously
- Aligning and connecting to synthesize
- Analyzing various syntax structures to increase comprehension
Teachers will learn four power-packed strategies for comprehending literary passages.
- Discovering Theme | Nine Must-Have Elements to Know
- Analyzing how complex characters develop over the course of the text
- Analyzing how character interactions help advance the plot or theme
- Examining how an author’s intentionality reveals so much more