THOUGHTFUL CLASSROOM PROFESSIONAL LEARNING SUITES

A Professional Learning Suite

Improving Reading Comprehension

Tools and strategies that make it easy to build students’ reading comprehension skills and deepen their understanding of classroom content

Featuring Dr. Harvey Silver, today’s leading expert on instructional tools and strategies

Reading Comprehension = The Key to Deep Learning

Reading for understanding is the key to deep learning at all grade levels and in every content area. But what does it take to read for understanding? Research shows that strong readers use a battery of strategies before, during, and after reading to make sense of texts. They preview and predict in advance. They monitor their comprehension along the way. And, they reflect on their thinking after reading.

This online professional learning suite will show you how to develop in all students the before-reading, during-reading, and after-reading strategies that the most proficient readers use to understand complex texts.

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What tools and strategies will I find in this suite?

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Before Reading Tools

Power Previewing: Teaches students to actively skim and preview texts before reading
Mind’s Eye: Taps into the power of visualization to increase motivation and facilitate pre-reading comprehension

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During Reading Tools

Single-Sentence Summaries: Encourages active reading and meaning-making by teaching students to stop and summarize regularly
Scavenger Hunt: Engages students in a fun and active search for key text features

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After Reading Tools

Reading Stances: Uses different lenses or “stances” to help students explore, analyze, and connect personally with texts
4-2-1 Summarize: Makes the processes of finding main ideas and summarizing texts engaging and collaborative

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A Comprehensive Reading Strategy

Reading for Meaning: A comprehensive strategy for designing lessons that build students’ before-, during-, and after-reading skills, with a focus on collecting textual evidence

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PLUS:

Practical resources to help teachers and PLCs plan, reflect, and analyze student work.

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Instructional Lead and Learning Acceleration Specialist,

Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative (KVEC) • Hazard, KY

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Instructional Lead and Learning Acceleration Specialist,

Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative (KVEC) • Hazard, KY

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