Scaffolding Adolescent Literacy

Description

This course provides middle years teachers with practical classroom strategies that focus on reading improvement and enabling students to successfully access complex texts across different learning areas.

Scaffolding Adolescent Literacy is a full day of Professional Development  covering 3  key literacy areas. Participants receive the Scaffolding Adolescent Literacy workbook filled with practical classroom activities covering the following topics: 

1. Reading Comprehension. The first part of the day focuses on enabling students to develop meta-cognition, that is, a deeper understanding of the reading process. Teachers will acquire practical activities to teach and improve reading comprehension for their students. These activities also assist students to improve their skills in summarising and paraphrasing text.

2. Building Vocabulary. Research tells us that vocabulary knowledge is a good predictor of comprehension ability. This workshop assists teachers to support students in building their academic and subject specific vocabulary through practical, interactive classroom strategies.

3. Speaking & Listening. The third aspect of the course equips teachers with effective tools and ideas to strengthen listening skills and engage their students in rich classroom dialogue, a key factor for improvement in student learning. These activities are interactive and social so adolescents find them engaging and energising.