With over sixteen years of professional development, learning research-based teaching strategies to support learners with reading comprehension skills, I am very excited to be able to offer that experience and knowledge within this class.

In this class, students will be introduced to four different top-priority reading comprehension skills . We will read through a non-fiction text closely. Then, we will practice the comprehension skill of the day as I model and guide students with strategies, skills, and clues to help them comprehend the text for each skill. The top-priority skills we will be focusing on in this four-day class are inquiry-based questioning, main idea with supporting details, summarizing with paraphrasing, and use text evidence to answer open-ended questions. Students will receive a document that I post in the classroom for each day that will match and support them in the class for each comprehension skill.  

AGENDA FOR EACH DAY
Day 1: Background Knowledge with Inquiry 
Day 2: Main Idea with Supporting Details
Day 3 Summarize with Paraphrasing
Day 4: Text Evidence to Answer Open-ended Questions

OUTLINE OF CLASS
-Meet and greet each other
-Teacher introduces the comprehension skill of the day 
-Class reads one paragraph at a time
-Teacher models and guides students to practice the comprehension skill of the day
-Students share their way of using the comprehension skill of the day
-Teacher provides feedback and guidance for the examples that students provide
-This process continues until all paragraphs are read and comprehended
-Teacher restates the skill of the day and informs the skill for the next class

I also have a 4-day comprehension class for FICTION text and comprehension strategies as well!
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