Learn instructional strategies to guide your teaching reading to your students in a way that guarantees they increase their reading skills and their achievement on reading assessments.
Across the state, students' STAAR reading scores demonstrate they often struggle with reading longer and more complex reading passages. In the metacognitive reading workshops and in the STAAR Reading Boot Camps, you will learn useful reading strategies to teach your students to build their reading skills as well as their ability to understand and to comprehend their reading. Students need to strengthen their metacognitive skills--to think about their thinking while they're reading. We'll provide you ways to build metacognition.
The Strategic Instruction reading workshops will give you the instructional tools and techniques provided by the Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) Reading Strategies and other research-validated reading models to build student reading abilities on grade level materials.
Attending the reading workshops will help teachers establish and implement successful literacy strategies in their classrooms which gives students much needed reading skills for the demands of content reading. Most importantly, by day's end, you and your fellow teachers will learn several ways of teaching important reading skills to students, especially those who are struggling readers.
These reading workshops are created and will be presented by the Strategic Instruction literacy experts at Region 13 who taught reading and literacy to students at all grade levels.
In this one day workshop you’ll learn reading strategies which directly affect reading proficiency, and can be taught to your students during the intervention classes in the weeks before STAAR and EOC testing dates.
Your students will learn how to better understand test questions and passages. We’ll walk through the Inference Strategy together, which is designed to prepare students for reading assessments by teaching them how to make better inferences. We teach students to use these inferences to better understand test questions and passages, allowing them to easily identify the types of textual or factual evidence needed to answer all questions correctly.
In the afternoon, we’ll run through Anita Archer’s “9 Big Ideas for Effective Reading Instruction,” which teaches students to dive deeper into reading passages, boosting their reading comprehension and improving their STAAR success.