Vocabulary Development Workshop, K-6
Levels: K–6
Length: 1 day
Audience: Administrators, classroom teachers, English-language learner teachers, special education teachers, literacy coaches, and reading specialists
Description
This workshop provides educators with current research and effective practices to develop vocabulary knowledge in elementary school children. Participants learn and practice research-proven methods to directly teach important content vocabulary, teach students to figure out unknown words using simple word-learning techniques, and engage in fun and stimulating activities that foster “word consciousness.”
Participant Outcomes
- Know the current research on vocabulary development.
- Learn effective techniques for teaching specific words and effective strategies for teaching students to figure out unfamiliar words while reading.
- Have a repertoire of active strategies for promoting “word consciousness.”
Comprehension Workshop, K-6
Levels: K–6
Length: 1 day
Audience: Administrators, classroom teachers, English-language learner teachers, special education teachers, literacy coaches, and reading specialists
Description
This session focuses on the different ways to assist students to access both narrative and informational texts. Specific reading skills and strategies—including questioning, graphic organizers, and monitoring techniques—are presented using explicit instruction, with hands-on lesson models and practice.
Participant Outcomes
- Understand the research on comprehension and link research to practice.
- Gain clear and explicit models of instructional routines.
- Practice using instructional routines specific to comprehension.
Vocabulary Development Workshop, 6-12
Levels: 6-12
Length: 1 day
Audience: 6–12 administrators, academic content-area teachers, English-language learner teachers, special education teachers, reading specialists, and coaches.
Description
Participants learn and practice research-proven methods to directly teach important content vocabulary, teach students to figure out unknown words using contextual analysis and morphemic analysis skills, and engage in fun and stimulating activities that foster “word consciousness.” Participants will receive more than 30 sample lesson models with easy application to classroom text in any academic content area.
Participant Outcomes
- Know the current research on vocabulary development.
- Know effective techniques for teaching specific words.
- Know effective strategies for teaching students to figure out unfamiliar words while reading.
- Have a repertoire of active strategies for promoting “word consciousness.
Comprehension Workshop, 6-12
Levels: 6-12
Length: 1 day
Audience: 6–12 administrators, academic content-area teachers, English-language learner teachers, special education teachers, reading specialists, and coaches.
Description
Participants learn about current, validated research in comprehension instruction and receive an overview of the factors known to positively impact comprehension. Participants receive in-depth instruction in selected instructional techniques that have broad application in both narrative and informational text at all grade levels, including content classes.
Participant Outcomes
- Understand seminal research on text comprehension.
- Apply a set of strategies to your own text.
- Understand different text structures and their signal words.
- Understand ways to improve instruction in content-area texts.