LETRS Module 6: Digging for Meaning: Teaching Text

LETRS Module 6: Digging for Meaning:
Teaching Text Comprehension (for all grades)
Danielson Framework
Component Connections:
Description:
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Module 6 discusses and illustrates the many conditions, skills, processes, and abilities
that influence reading comprehension outcomes. Teachers are helped to anticipate the
cognitive and linguistic challenges students face as they read narrative and expository
text. Participants will examine the text, reader, task, and context variables that have an
impact on comprehension. They will also analyze the challenges of written language
processing at the word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, and discourse levels; consider
how inferences are made; and learn how to foster the metacognitive and strategic skill
that good readers employ. (For all grades).
Audience:
All participants must have had LETRS module 1 prior to any other module.
D1: Planning and Preparation
1e
D3: Instruction
3b and 3c
All Educators
Dates:
April 8, 2015
Time:
8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Location:
Colonial IU 20, Central Office
Cost:
$35.00 (Includes: book and
materials). Lunch will not be
provided.
Presenter:
CIU 20 LETRS Trainers
Act 48:
7 hours.
For More Information:
Gretchen Stoudt
Curriculum Services
gstoudt@ciu20.org
610-515-6506
Learner Outcomes:
Participants will gain an understanding of:
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Comprehension’s dependence on many skills.
Process of reading comprehension.
How to interpret academic written language.
Text structure and its impact on comprehension.
How to help students dig for meaning using queries.
Register:
CPETracker members may register at www.cpetracker.org. Participants should submit a check /
money order payable to CIU 20, and send it to: Gretchen Stoudt, CIU 20, 6 Danforth Drive, Easton,
PA 18045. Credit Card payment (3% fee) is also available by calling 610-515-6424. Registration
deadline is March 25, 2015.
Don’t have a CPETracker account? Please fill out and return this registration form:
www.ciu20.org/noncpetracker. There will be an additional $20 administrative fee for
NonCPETracker members requesting Act 48 hours. Form and applicable payment should be
mailed to: CIU 20, 6 Danforth Drive, Easton, PA 18045.
Participants must unregister two weeks prior to event to receive a full refund. Please view our full
cancellation policy under the Professional Development section on our website, www.ciu20.org.
Accessibility: Reasonable efforts will be made to accommodate individuals who have special
needs as addressed by the Americans with Disabilities Act and who need assistance at this
training. Contact: Gretchen Stoudt at gstoudt@ciu20.org or 610-515-6506.