Cancelled-Exploring Expository Literacy (Grades 7-10)

 

Exploring Expository Literacy:
Increasing Academic Rigor through Critical Reading and Written Responses for Grades 7-10
March 19th, 2014
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
CESA 8 Office – Maple Room

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 and written response to expository text including:
• differentiating between narrative and expository text features/structures
• understanding expository text features and structures and their role in comprehension and author’s purpose
• using structured note-taking to distinguish among central ideas, main ideas and supporting details
• utilizing close reading scaffolds to annotate expository text
• differentiating between paraphrasing and summarizing and using explicit instruction techniques to teach both
• using the “Great Short Answer” organizational scaffold to guide short answer, text dependent written responses
• exploring rubrics for assessing text annotations and short answer responses

Workshop Objectives:
Improve teaching instruction and increase expectations for student performance in academic literacy as recommended by Common Core Standards for ELA, including History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects.

 

Presenter: Darla Brink, Director of CESA 8 Literacy Center
Audience: Seventh through tenth grade educators, including social studies, science, allied and encore teachers
Cost: $75.00 per participant for Curriculum Instruction and Assessment member school districts. $150.00 per participant for all other school districts.

 

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