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.
Building students’ reading metacognition increases their ability to transfer learning to new contexts and it increases students’ ability to learning independently. Hattie’s research shows it also holds the potential to increase student achievement in all content. In the two 1 day workshops, we will explore the definition of metacognition: students take active control of their thinking processes. The we will apply it to specific reading instructional strategies.
Day 2 December 4, 2018:
Teachers will learn how to use the SIMRSelf Questioning and Paraphrasing strategy and other research based instructional strategies to build student metacognition and reading comprehension.
Audience
Teachers grades 4-12