Dynamic Mini-Lessons for Teaching Reading
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For Teachers in Grades K-12
Reading Workshop Overview
This powerful one-day workshop begins with a look at the big picture of year-long reading instruction. This vision includes developing kid-friendly ways to introduce grade-level specific comprehension strategies, including:
• How to use the text clues and the reader’s background knowledge to make an inference.
• Ways to compare what the reader already knows and has experienced to the details in the text to make connections.
• Strategies to engage the reader’s curiosity, make predictions and ask questions about the text.
• How to imagine and visualize the text details in moving pictures within the reader’s mind.
• Strategies to target a stronger text retelling and then a more succinct summarization of the reading.
• Ways to help students narrow down to a main idea statement.
• How to encourage students to go beyond the text’s details, draw a conclusion, and make a synthesis.
After exposing students to the comprehension strategies that strong readers use, the rest of the year-long map focuses on how to revisit those concepts through a scaffold of mini-lessons. Participants will learn ways to make their mini-lessons more powerful while observing the presenter model “live” reading lessons throughout the day.
This workshop will address:
• Ways to make reading mini-lessons more concrete and visible for your students.
• The three different voices in a reader’s head, including ways to model them for your students.
• How to build and activate background knowledge in your readers to increase their comprehension.
• Strategies for defining and demonstrating comprehension strategies in kid-friendly ways.
• A scaffold of mini-lesson skills for each comprehension strategy that grows with your readers all year long.
• Instructional strategies to gradually release reading responsibility to the students.
• Suggested picture book titles to use when demonstrating different strategies and mini-lessons.
When you leave you’ll be able to:
- Execute comprehension mini-lessons that are short, effective, and powerful.
- Make reading lessons more visual through anchor charts, Think Alouds, hand signals, and concrete icons.
- Create a flow of mini-lessons — from whole-class instruction to small-group guided practice to independent literacy stations.
- Create a year-long plan that emphasizes spiraling through previously-taught skills, encouraging students to utilize multiple strategies simultaneously.
- Implement Kristina’s 10 newest whole-class mini-lessons.
- Organize your reading lessons by comprehension strategy for quick access.
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Professional Growth Credits
Certified educators in Indiana can earn 5.5 PGP points for attending any one-day workshop sponsored by Smekens Education.
Smekens Education is an approved provider of Illinois Continuing Professional Development Units (CPDUs). Participants earn 5.5 CPDUs for attending this workshop.
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Graduate Credit
For an additional fee, participants in this workshop are eligible to earn one hour of graduate credit from Purdue University-Calumet.
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DATES & LOCATIONS
March 7, 2012
Columbus, OH
(Courtyard by Marriott Columbus West)
March 20, 2012
Indianapolis, IN
(Radisson Airport Hotel)
April 16, 2012
Ft. Wayne, IN
(The Landmark Centre)
April 19, 2012
Cincinnati, OH
(Holiday Inn, I-275 North)
April 25, 2012
Chicago, IL
(Holiday Inn, Countryside)
May 2, 2012
Detroit, MI
(Embassy Suites, Livonia, MI)
TARGET AUDIENCE
K-6 Teachers
6-12 Language Arts Teachers
Literacy Coaches
Literacy Coordinators
Title I Teachers & Coordinators
ELL Teachers & Coordinators
K-12 High Ability Teachers
L-12 Principals & Assistant Principals
Curriculum Directors
"100% valuable! 100% motivating!"D. Carlson
