Scholastic Webinar: Boosting Literacy With Effective Reading Comprehension
Date: Wednesday September 28, 2011
Time: 2:00 PM EDT
What does it mean to understand what one reads? How can instruction be designed to systematically teach the skills, strategies, and knowledge necessary for reading comprehension? In this presentation, we will examine two repertoires related to reading comprehension:
The intellectual skills and strategies necessary to comprehend text
Vocabulary knowledge
You will hear from Chad High, Principal, Cole Elementary School in Tennessee who will share his success story on boosting student literacy with effective reading comprehension. We'll then discuss how these can serve as a foundation for designing effective strategy-based instruction for four major types of comprehension--factual or literal, inferential, main idea, and derived meaning--as well as word meanings. Dr. Robbins and Dr. Leon are also presenters.
