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General Description
Strategies to Assist Struggling Readers
The NSW Government recently announced that every single student would have to meet minimum standards in both literacy and numeracy in order to receive a Higher School Certificate from 2020. Clearly, the State Government has come to recognise something that teachers have known for far too long — namely, some students are entering Stage Six without first gaining basic skills in reading and writing. Without these foundational skills, these students are less likely to achieve success in the HSC. Worse yet, they are less likely to flourish in the post-schooling world.
As such, this course aims to help teachers in NSW develop a range of strategies so that they can help their students become expert readers. Specifically, teachers will learn how to integrate pre-reading, during reading and post-reading activities into their lessons.
Audience
For secondary teachers, who are working with students between the ages of 15 and 17.
While it has a NSW flair, all teachers would find it beneficial.
Available Delivery Formats
Format Description
24/7 course access
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Teaching Standards
1.3.2 Proficient Level – Students with diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds
1.5.2 Proficient Level – Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities
Are you in NSW? If so, this is relevant for you
This course contributes to 5.0 professional development hours.
Occurrences
Sessions
What does a ‘Good Reader’ look like?
1 hour
Within this session, we will explore the basic skills students need to have in order to become good readers. For instance, we will explore how our student’s vocabulary, fluency and decoding skills affect their ability to read.
How does one become a Good Reader?
1 hour
Within this session, we will explore a collection of different teaching and learning activities that teachers in Stage Six might like to use to help their students develop the basic skills needed to become good readers.
Strategies to use before reading
1 hour
Within this session, we will examine why it is important to use pre-reading activities during our classes. From there, we will look at some practical ways that we can incorporate these types of activities into our classes.
Strategies to use during reading
1 hour
Within this session, we will examine the types of things we should do when reading articles or textbooks to improve student comprehension.
Strategies to use after reading
1 hour
Finally, we will end this course by looking at the types of activities teachers can utilise at the end of a reading to help students develop a more sophisticated understanding of the topic being explored.
User Rating
4.6Latest Reviews
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Strategies to Assist Struggling Readers - Sally Johnstone
08/10/2020
It was very good and relevant
Strategies to Assist Struggling Readers - Sally Johnstone
08/10/2020
Good information and relevant
Strategies to Assist Struggling Readers - Sally Johnstone
08/10/2020
Course was great, with good resources and references
Strategies to Assist Struggling Readers - Sally Johnstone
08/10/2020
Very good.
Strategies to Assist Struggling Readers - Sally Johnstone
08/10/2020
High quality, conversational and accessible notes Sure
Strategies to Assist Struggling Readers - Sally Johnstone
08/07/2020
The content was thorough with a selection of techniques and resources. I will be able to apply these in many situations.
Strategies to Assist Struggling Readers - Sally Johnstone
08/07/2020
Great course with insightful and relevant content! Very happy with this course! It was super insightful, resourceful and very engaging.
Strategies to Assist Struggling Readers - Sally Johnstone
08/07/2020
The course is very relevant and has practical suggestions.
Strategies to Assist Struggling Readers - Sally Johnstone
08/07/2020
good
Strategies to Assist Struggling Readers - Sally Johnstone
08/07/2020
quality was good however I thought it was more about helping students with non fictional text
Strategies to Assist Struggling Readers - Sally Johnstone
08/07/2020
High quality with practical strategies, clear illustration
Strategies to Assist Struggling Readers - Sally Johnstone
08/07/2020
Very relevant, Great quality clips and scaffolds provided.
Strategies to Assist Struggling Readers - Sally Johnstone
08/07/2020
Lots of useful content and relevant to the topic.
Strategies to Assist Struggling Readers - Sally Johnstone
08/07/2020
THis course was amazing.
Strategies to Assist Struggling Readers - Sally Johnstone
08/07/2020
extremely relevant
Strategies to Assist Struggling Readers - Sally Johnstone
27/04/2020
A very informative course full of practical ideas easiy to incorporate and mplement in the classroom.
Strategies to Assist Struggling Readers - Sally Johnstone
27/04/2020
Great quality with lots of videos to break up the content and present information in a slightly different way, be it from others in the field or cute examples. I liked the way the techniques were broken down into simple points and offered an example, and that we were given the opportunity to reflect and create our own activities.
Strategies to Assist Struggling Readers - Sally Johnstone
27/04/2020
The course was quite beneficial and provided me with some great teaching and learning strategies to implement inthe classroom.
Strategies to Assist Struggling Readers - Sally Johnstone
27/04/2020
Very good in terms of resources and the structure of the course.
Strategies to Assist Struggling Readers - Sally Johnstone
27/04/2020
Great course – practical and concise. Thank you!
About the team
Sally Johnstone
Creator
Sally Johnstone is a secondary history teacher, who has spent the last five years working with students in Stage Six. She is interested in creating dynamic lessons that cater for the diverse range of students in her classes.