Description
We take for granted that content literacy requires more than just the ability to read. Students must be equipped with a variety of tools to help improve their reading and comprehension. In Literacy in the 21st Century – Strategies for Teaching Literacy, Katherine McKnight, Ph.D., breaks down these tools and provides practical strategies for helping students develop close reading skills to improve their literacy.
This course will cover:
- What is close reading?
- Vocabulary and diction
- Questioning the author
- Visualization
- The five Es for approaching literacy
Anita – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
This course offered great strategies that can be utilized in your classroom.
Brenda – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Learned many strategies and was provided with the tools to implement these instructional strategies in my classroom. Loved the numerous teacher and student examples provided to get a concrete image of what the strategies look like and sound like.
Tessie – HUNTINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –
She is a great presenter and I found information to take back and use in my classroom.
Roxanne – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Useful reading strategies!
Calvin – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Great hands-on and practical strategies to build reading comprehension.
Dianna – VAN WERT CITY (verified owner) –
I appreciate the strategies provided to either add to my toolbox or to affirm ones I have used before.
Val – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
It was good but I have been using the Five E’s for quite some time now.
Alexandra – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
It was not useful for me in my area.
Lyndsay – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
loved how it engages students
Alma – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Great training!
Rachel – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Great strategies for developing your reading inner voice and visualization.
mary – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
I learned lots of new reading strategies to engage students and ways to trick kids into re- reading the text again.
Shay – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
This was great!
Mary – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Great course with concrete ideas to implement teaching comprehension!
Michael – MERCEDES ISD (verified owner) –
Great strategies.
Jenny – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
It was good.
Jennifer – SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (verified owner) –
I think it was a good course overall. A lot of info. was presented in a short time along with graphic organizers. I wish each organizer could have been explained a little more.
Dalia – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Geared more to secondary not elementary.
Laura – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting and engaging.
Nora – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
Very good insight in comprehension strategies
Rebecca E – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
interesting on different strategies to apply
Rebecca – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
This course presented a variety of reading activities
Esmeralda – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and excellent ideas to incorporate in the classroom
Sara – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great course for middle school teachers.