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T&L 2900: ONL: Improving Reading Comprehension Skills in Content Area Classes
The reading comprehension skills you will learn in this course are tools that good readers use, consciously or subconsciously, to help them make meaning from what they read. These strategies will not address decoding skills or the most basic of reading skills. However, you can use them to enhance what is already occurring in your classroom. Learning these strategies empowers readers at all levels of competency to become more proficient at making meaning; to comprehend text more fluently; and to become more engaged in their reading.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the strategies proficient readers use.
- Examine the value of explicitly teaching comprehension strategies within your content area and why it is important to teach reading comprehension in all content areas.
- Analyze the use of schema within your own reading practices. What strategies do you use when reading for your own pleasure and your own learning?
- Design a series of lessons within your content area to teach one of the proficient reader strategies, using the gradual release of responsibility model.