Doug Buehl - Promising Strategies for Boosting Comprehension

Audience: middle & high school teachers, literacy coaches, reading specialists, and administrators

Watch a classroom of your students peering into their books to read an assignment. Many students will appear to be reading when in reality they are simply looking for the answers to questions to complete an assignment. Is comprehension truly taking place? As they encounter increasingly more sophisticated and diverse texts across the curriculum, adolescent readers need to be “mentored” on how to effectively read texts in history, science, literature, mathematics, and other subjects. Students are often confounded by the amount of information they encounter in a textbook, and they are unable to differentiate key ideas from supporting detail. As a result, they benefit from classroom strategies that guide their excursion through content texts. This workshop will focus on comprehension strategies that help students unlock academic discourse in science, social studies, technical subjects, and mathematics, as well as the fictional texts read for learning in content subjects.

In particular, the study guide will be reconceptualized as a vehicle for guiding and supporting comprehension. Carefully constructed study guides, such as the Interactive Reading Guide, are powerful vehicles for incorporating comprehension strategies into the instruction of course content. Teachers participating in this workshop are introduced to comprehension strategies that support all students, from struggling to strong readers, as they develop into more competent readers and thinkers capable of meeting the challenges of the middle and high school curriculum. During the workshop, instructional strategies that can be applied throughout the curriculum are modeled with texts representing a variety of content areas.

 

Disclaimer:

CESA 6 makes every effort to accommodate basic dietary needs such as vegetarian, gluten free and basic food allergies. Because of the number of meals served and the number of items used each day, along with food product changes from our food vendors, we cannot guarantee that every allergen in the food served will be identified and labeled. Guests concerned with food allergies must be aware of this risk. CESA 6 does not assume liability for adverse reactions to food consumed or items one may come into contact with while eating at a CESA 6 event. To better serve our guests with dietary restrictions or allergies, please go into your myQuickReg account and update the special accommodations section. Notice of a special dietary need must be made in advance of the event.

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Any registration cancellation must be received at least 8 business days before event in order for a full conference fee refund to be issued (full refunds do not include service fees. Service fees are nonrefundable).Registration cancellations received 1-7 business days before an event, a refund, minus $50 for each participant, will be issued. Persons who are registered, but not in attendance on the day of the session ("no call, no show") will be charged the full registration fee. CESA 6 reserves the right to cancel any session due to insufficient enrollment. Participants will be notified by email if a cancellation occurs.