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e-Learning for Educators - Promoting Reading Comprehension Skills in the Middle School Classroom
This course is offered as a part of the e-Learning for Educators project, a partnership between LEARN NC, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University College of Education, UNC-TV, DPI, and the North Carolina Virtual Public School. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Education under Grant No. U286A050018.
This course is part of LEARN NC's catalog of online courses for teachers. Please see the current offerings at the bottom of this page for information about when it may next be taught.
Help students develop concrete reading strategies that will improve their reading comprehension.
Researchers have found that good readers use specific strategies to comprehend text, and those instructional programs that explicitly teach these skills have improved students’ comprehension. In this workshop, you’ll acquire teaching practices that will help students in grades 3-5 construct meaning from both narrative and expository text. You will also explore instructional procedures that help students learn how to coordinate key comprehension skills.
The goal for strategy instruction is to prepare students to become active and purposeful readers who think about their text before, during, and after reading. Teach your students the tactics that will help them get the most out of what they read.
Audience
This course is appropriate for teachers of grades 3-5.
Time commitment
Approximately 2-5 hours per week
Prerequisites
None
Current offerings
There are no scheduled offerings of this course.
