Read Me: Reading Strategies to Support Struggling Readers
Teachers, Grades 4-12
Help struggling students learn content and understand their world. This session will present research-based, classroom-tested strategies for engaging students in rigorous texts that are relevant to a discipline or content area. Participants will learn how to develop a classroom environment that supports reading for learning. Specific strategies support student comprehension of content-based texts.
(Half or full day)
Professional Development Sessions
Reading, Writing, and Literacy
- They Will Read! Getting Books in the Hands of Teenagers
- Literature Circles for the 21st Century
- Literature Circles: Focusing on Differentiated Instruction
- Differentiating Texts to Create Rigor and Relevance for Readers
- Read Me: Reading Strategies to Support Struggling Readers
- 20 Top Differentiated Instruction Strategies for English Language Learners
- Getting Graphic: Using Graphic Novels to Reach All Readers
- Students Love to Argue, So Let Them!
- The Interdisciplinary Literacy Tools for Content Area Teachers
- Using Primary Sources for Interdisciplinary Literacy in the Content Areas (Math, Science, Technical Subjects)
- Using Primary Sources for Interdisciplinary Literacy in the Content Areas (ELA, History/Social Studies, Humanities)