Promoting reading comprehension skills in the middle school classroom
Teach your students the concrete reading strategies they'll need to improve their comprehension, whether they're reading for class, for work, or for pleasure. This course will help you prepare students to become active, purposeful readers who think about the text before, during, and after reading.
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- Learn more about comprehension, literacy, online learning, and professional development.
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Course description
Today’s middle school students will enter the adult world reading and writing more than at any other time in human history. As the world’s supply of information swells, they’ll need advanced literacy skills to succeed at their jobs and to thrive as citizens.
Teach your students the concrete reading strategies they’ll need to improve their comprehension, whether they’re reading for class, for work, or for pleasure. This course will help you prepare students to become active, purposeful readers who think about the text before, during, and after reading.
Course objectives
This workshop will enable participants to:
- deepen their understanding of the middle school students’ reading development and effective literacy instruction in grades six through eight.
- deepen their understanding of strategies students use to comprehend text.
- identify students’ use of specific comprehension strategies.
- identify effective methods for teaching students comprehension strategies.
- deepen their understanding of the demands of diverse genres.
- develop lesson plans for teaching strategies for strategies-based instruction and for comprehending expository text.
- deepen their understanding of the demands of online text.
- analyze the ways in which technology can be used to foster students’ reading comprehension.
Course information
- Syllabus
- You can view full the course syllabus here.
- Audience
- This course is appropriate for teachers of grades six through eight.
- Time commitment
- Approximately two to five hours per week
- Duration
- Seven 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.
- Objective 4.05: Teachers help students develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- 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.
