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Course Description

This course offers teachers methodologies to improve students' reading comprehension skills, focusing on strategic approaches to engage with texts that are complex in their ideas and construction.  It covers techniques for deepening vocabulary knowledge, reading fluency and critical thinking and text analysis.



Audience

English Teachers.  Sample teaching activities are suitable for students in Years 7-10. 


Teaching Standards

2.5.2 Proficient Level - Know the content and how to teach it - Literacy and numeracy strategies:  Apply knowledge and understanding of effective teaching strategies to support students’ literacy and numeracy achievement.

3.4.2 - Proficient Level - Select and use resources: Select and/or create and use a range of resources, including ICT, to engage students in their learning.



$149 + GST - Individual Enrolment


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Course curriculum

  • 1

    Course Introduction

    • Welcome

    • Acknowledgement of Country

    • Learning Objectives

    • Teaching Standards

  • 2

    Module 1 - Introduction to Strategic Reading

    • Introduction

    • Introduction to Strategic Reading

    • Alignment with the NSW English K-10 Syllabus Objectives

    • Reading Strategy 1: Predicting

    • Reading Strategy 2: Questioning

    • Reading Strategy 3: Clarifying

    • Reading Strategy 4: Summarising

    • Reading Strategy 5: Inferencing

    • Reflection Question

    • Suggestions for Collaboration

  • 3

    Module 2 - Deepening Vocabulary Knowledge

    • Introduction

    • Understanding the Importance of Vocabulary Knowledge

    • Teacher Activity: Reflective Journaling on the Impact of Vocabulary Knowledge on Students’ Learning

    • Strategies for Effective Vocabulary Instruction

    • Class Activity

    • Prompting Independent Vocabulary Learning

    • Class Activity

    • Reflection Question

  • 4

    Module 3 – Enhancing Reading Fluency

    • Introduction

    • Develop Techniques to Improve Students’ Reading Fluency and Speed

    • Class Activity

    • Understanding the Relationship Between Fluency and Comprehension

    • Class Activity

    • Reflection Question

  • 5

    Module 4 – Building Comprehension Skills

    • Introduction

    • Introduction to Comprehension

    • Strategies for Enhancing Comprehension: Making Connections

    • Strategies for Enhancing Comprehension: Visualising

    • Strategies for Enhancing Comprehension: Questioning

    • Class Activity

    • Reflection Question

  • 6

    Module 5 – Critical Thinking and Text Analysis

    • Introduction

    • Introduction to Critical Thinking and Text Analysis

    • Analysing Texts

    • Comparing Texts

    • Critical Reading and Response

    • Class Activities

    • Reflection Question

    • Suggestions for Collaboration

  • 7

    Course Feedback

    • Please take few minutes to give us your feedback

Do you teach in NSW? If so, this is relevant to you:

Completing Enhancing Comprehension through Strategic Reading Approaches will contribute 2.5 hours of NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Accredited PD in the priority area of Delivery and Assessment of NSW Curriculum/Early Years Learning Framework, addressing Standard Descriptors 2.5.2 and 3.4.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher in NSW.

 

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