This course allows participants to learn how to use, develop, and modify seven comprehension strategies that will increase their knowledge on how to relay comprehension concepts and produce creative, inviting and engaging lessons for students. The course objectives for concrete comprehension are 1) Connecting, 2) Predicting, 3) Visualizing, 4) Monitoring/Clarifying/ Questioning, 5) Determining Importance--Main Ideas and Details, 6) Inferring, and 7) Synthesizing. Each of these areas will be explored.
Upon completing this course, students are fully equipped to enter the classroom with confidence, armed with comprehensive lesson plans and engaging activities.
Number of Units: 3.0 graduate level extension credit(s) in semester hours
Who Should Attend: This course provides continuing education for teachers (K-12, new or veteran).
Course Materials: No text required
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“This course is both excellent for new teachers, as well as teachers who have been in the profession for a long time. I have been teaching for 24 years now and I still find this information so useful for my first grade classroom. For me, this course reminded me of how I can use the seven reading comprehension strategies in my classroom. I learned these strategies many years ago. I use most of these strategies in my classroom every day (not all in one day) but this course reminded me the importance of teaching each one and gave me ideas to use with my students.”
“I found the assignments to be constructive and well thought out resulting in tools that can be implemented in my classroom immediately. It is rare to come away with knowledge and tools specific to my grade level. It is particularly rare to gain knowledge, activities or lessons that can be implemented immediately. Taking this class has been transformative to my teaching practices. I will be a better reading comprehension teacher in this area going forward.”
As an adult and an educator, if I would have had the skills this class has taught, I would have been a much stronger reader. I am so grateful for this class to be able to help my students be successful readers and become confident in their ability.
The course was easy to follow and the assignments are useful resources.
Thank you for the on-line opportunity to take part in this course. The syllabus was easy to follow. The course definitely helped expand my knowledge as a reading intervention teacher.
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