Exploring Expository Literacy (Grades 4-7)

Exploring Expository Literacy:
Close and Critical Reading Strategies for Grades 4-7
March 25, 2014
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
CESA 8 Office - Aspen/Birch Rooms

In this workshop, participants will receive a packet of materials that can be used in the classroom and explore specific strategies to develop critical reading skills in reading expository text, including:
• exploring elements of expository text
• differentiating between narrative and expository text features/structures
• understanding expository text features and structures and their role in comprehension and author’s purpose
• creating main idea statements and determining relevant supporting details
• learning a three step close reading process
• exploring a variety of summarizing scaffolds

Workshop Objectives:
• Improve teaching instruction and increase expectations for student performance in academic literacy as recommended by Common Core Standards for ELA.
• Provide explicit instructional strategies and scaffolds to specifically address the needs of struggling readers

Presenter: Darla Brink, Director of CESA 8 Literacy Center
Audience: Fourth through seventh grade teachers, Title I teachers, interventionists, reading specialists, special education teachers.
Cost: $45.00 per participant for CESA 8 Title I School Districts.

 

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