Promoting reading comprehension skills in the elementary classroom
Researchers have identified the strategies that expert readers use to understand text. Develop your students into active, purposeful readers by teaching these strategies in your classroom.
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Course description
Researchers have identified the strategies that expert readers use to understand text. Develop your students into active, purposeful readers by teaching these strategies in your classroom.
In this course, you’ll study teaching techniques that help students in grades three through five develop concrete strategies for constructing meaning from both narrative and expository text. You’ll collaborate with educators from across the state and explore cutting-edge instructional procedures designed to bolster students’ key comprehension strategies.
Course objectives
This course will help you to:
- identify reading strategies critical to comprehension.
- explore how to explicitly teach comprehension strategies and guide students in applying them.
- help students build story schema (background knowledge about stories) by showing the recurring elements of narrative text (story grammar): characters, settings, conflicts, major events, resolutions, and themes.
- Help students draw on their story schema to make predictions about events and consequences.
- Help students distinguish common text structures in informational text in order to better understand and recall main ideas.
- Understand how analyzing question-answer relationships (QAR) can be a useful strategy for approaching comprehension questions.
Course information
- Audience
- This is an introductory workshop for teachers, technology specialists, curriculum specialists, professional development specialists, or other school personnel teaching students in grades three through five.
- Duration
- Six weeks
- Credits
- 2.0 CEUs
Standards alignment
North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards (2009)
- Goal 3: Teachers know the content they teach.
- Objective 3.01: Teachers align their instruction with the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.
- Goal 4: Teachers facilitate learning for their students.
- Objective 4.03: Teachers use a variety of instructional methods.
- Goal 5: Teachers reflect on their practice.
- Objective 5.02: Teachers link professional growth to their professional goals.
- Objective 5.03: Teachers function effectively in a complex, dynamic environment.
