Strand 2
Exploring the Integration of Reading Instruction
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OVERVIEW of STRAND
This four week workshop will explore the following question: What can secondary content area teachers do to improve reading to learn in their classrooms? The course will address this issue by means of readings, discussion, and the teacher’s own planning, implementation, and assessment of reading strategies in his/her classroom.
Chapters to read from Subjects Matter: Every Teacher’s Guide to Content-Area Reading—see weekly assignments for specifics.
Chapter 4— "Toward a Balanced Diet of Reading"
Chapter 5— "Tools for Thinking: Reading Strategies Across the Curriculum"
Chapter 6— "How to Use a Textbook"
Chapter 11— "Help for Struggling Readers"
Additional Readings/Resources:
- Reading Quest (Making Sense of Social Studies) a site dedicated to reading strategies for social studies classrooms.
- Content-Area Reading (A Power Point) a power point on teaching text patterns. (Be sure to start at slide 1)
- Reading Strategies for the Content-Area Teacher Secondary content-area reading strategies; lesson plans for teaching.
- Study Skills Self-Help Information study skills site from Virginia Tech with skills that can improve reading.
- Reading as a Strategic Activity a collection of reading strategies for use with adolescent readers from the Beacon Learning Center.
- Teaching Reading in the Content Areas series—see the pdf files in Part II of this online course.
- Chapters from Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males—see pdf files
- Miscellaneous collection of strategies, tools, and lessons—see pdf files
Reading: Participants are expected to complete weekly reading assignments. Most often these assignments will be linked to the week’s discussion. Specific assignments for the week are included in each week’s agenda.
DIscussion Board: Participants will be expected to respond in the discussion board. There will be four prompts/questions, one for each week of the class.The prompts are included in each week’s agenda as well as on the discussion board tool.
Action Assignments: Participants will complete one action assignment each week. Action assignments will be closely connected to participants’ daily practice in the school/classroom. Assignments are included in each week’s agenda.
Assessment: An assessment document is available in the "CLASS OVERVIEW" section.
ASSESSMENT - Strand 2
The completion of the activities in this strand equal 100 points.
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Strand 2 - Assessment |
WEEKLY ASSIGNMENTS
Before you begin...
If you have not taken Strand 1, begin Strand 2 by reading Chapter 2 in the text, Subjects Matter, "How Smart Readers Think". This will give you some background to better understanding the chapters being read in this strand.
As time permits, reading the remaining chapters in the text would be beneficial to you & your students!
WEEKLY AGENDAS
During each of the next four weeks, there will be something to read, something to respond to, & something to do. By the end of the four-week experience, you should have three-dozen strategies for helping engage students with course content.
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Week 1-Agenda |
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Week 2-Agenda |
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Week 3-Agenda |
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Week 4-Agenda |
Week # 3- Additional Reading Resources
In addition to reading Chapter 5 in the text, explore these resources. As you do, be looking for some strategies you'd like to try with your own students..
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Teaching Reading in Science |
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Teaching Reading in Math |
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Misc Strategies and Tools and Lessons |
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Additional Readings |
Week # 4 - Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males
WEEKLY DISCUSSION PROMPTS
STRAND ASSESSMENT
If the workshop strands are being taken for Butler credit, this is how your grade will be earned. If you are taking the strands for your own professional development, grades will not be given at this time.
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Strand 2 - Assessment |