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Module 1055

Reading to Learn: Best Practices for Improved Comprehension Skills

Apply this towards your professional development requirements

Tuition: $225 complete

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What You'll Learn

Reading comprehension is the foundation for all learning. Sadly we still have many learners who struggle and fall short of their full potential. Fortunately, there are proven ways to increase your students' comprehension ability by combining researched-based instruction with effective assessments. This module offers the latest teaching strategies and techniques for improving your students' reading comprehension skills - at all grade levels and in any subject area. You'll learn:

  • 6 proven strategies to enhance your students' reading comprehension
  • How to overcome five comprehension obstacles that students face
  • 16 research-based reading strategies that benefit diverse learners
  • How to vary your instruction for multiple intelligences to boost reading comprehension skills for all students
  • Keys to effectively assess the reading comprehension ability of your students

Highlights

Reading Comprehension: Help Students Excel at School, on Tests and in Life

  • The most important thing you must do to increase reading and comprehension
  • Guide students to interact with text and effectively construct meaning
  • Help students find main points and key information to increase overall literacy
  • 10 ideas to expand and refine your reading and comprehension instruction

Effective Reading Instruction for All Types and Levels of Learners

  • High-impact techniques to improve achievement across all disciplines
  • Apply 3 reading connections that quickly improve students' comprehension
  • Help students make inferences and draw conclusions based on what they read
  • Use questioning to clarify and deepen students' understanding of your instruction

Apply Proven Teaching Strategies that Raise Student Achievement

  • Develop knowledge and skills through validated teaching best practices
  • Teach students to "read between the lines" using context and clues
  • Engage students using mental imaging
  • Help students evaluate their thinking process and form new ways of learning
  • Implement ongoing observational assessments to improve classroom teaching

The Virtual Teachers Lounge™

Check in with your peers and get answers to your questions – any time, 24/7. Taking this course will give you exclusive access to the thoughts, insights and experience of other educators and K-12 experts discussing your topics and giving you solutions and ideas for whatever is on your mind. In the Teachers' lounge, you can:

  • Learn new, working strategies and solutions from other educators – live!
  • Get answers to your toughest questions from top K-12 experts
  • Discuss course topics with your peers and benefit from their experiences
  • Share your success stories and best practices to benefit other teachers and administrators
  • Get new perspectives, fresh ideas and guidance – whenever you need it.
  • You can log whenever is most convenient for you, 24/7

All you have to do is sign up for this course, and you're in!

Connect with, hear from and get help from you peers.


Materials & Assessment

Lectures Your lectures, delivered by one of the nation's leading, recognized experts on this topic, are presented in multiple parts to make listening and tracking your progress easier. You can listen to each as often as you like by playing it on your computer, downloading it to your iPod or other MP3 player, even burning it to CD. Listen wherever it is most convenient for you: at home, in your car; at the park; and whenever you like: before or after work, at night or on weekends. Many educators can complete a module in only a week.
Text Resources Virtual text resources are downloadable and expand on the material covered in your lectures. They may include articles, web links to related materials and web sites, definitions of important terms and concepts, and a bibliography. All materials can be viewed on your computer or downloaded and printed.
Assessment If you are taking this course for a Certificate of Completion, you do not need to complete the assessments and need only submit final projects. If you want to receive 3 Professional Development credits or 90 Professional Development hours, you must complete all the assessments and final projects.
Virtual Teachers Lounge To gain Professional Development credits or hours for any of these three modules, you must participate in the Virtual teachers Lounge discussion for that module. If you are not seeking credits or hours, participation in the Lounge is not mandatory, but you are still welcome to connect with and share your thoughts, questions, insights and experience with your peers at any time.
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Reading to Learn: Best Practices for Improved Comprehension Skills

Tuition: $225
Contact us for our quantity discount policy at questions@americancenterforeducators.org