Sharp Reading Comprehension Strategy Instruction (Secondary)

Description

This course focuses on comprehension teaching in the secondary classroom.

TARGET AUDIENCE:
Principals, Secondary Teachers, Literacy Leaders, Support Teachers and Teacher Assistants, Chaplains.

This workshop provides participants with:

• a knowledge of the skills employed by successful readers,
• an explicit, transferable routine for comprehension instruction, that empowers students and simplifies the work of teachers
• classroom strategies to enable students to be active in their reading and increase engagement in their learning.

Whether working one-to-one, in small groups, or with the whole class, this approach to reading comprehension instruction is simple and effective. Extensive research and classroom trials support its effectiveness as a successful teaching approach that improves reading engagement and achievement.

Session 1: will provide an overall understanding of the Sharp Reading stage 3 Comprehension Strategy Instruction routine. This focuses on constructing meaning at sentence level. 

Session 2 : takes a deeper look into Stage 3 with a focus on data collection, planning learning outcomes, and unpacking difficult vocabulary and concepts, to construct meaning with challenging text. 

Session 3: by now Stage 3 should be established and we add into the routine, strategies for analysing and evaluating text (Stages 5 & 6).

Resources:
• 12 months of online tutorials valued at $99 NZ 
• this includes written tutorials, video modelling and supporting resource materials

Follow-up classroom support as required from AISWA consultants.

Please see below Murdoch University Rockingham Campus Map -  rockingham-campus-map .pdf