In this e-course, participants will examine effective strategy for reading comprehension of ELLs in intermediate grades, and these approaches scaffold across content for optimal effectiveness. Approaches will include text structure, reciprocal teaching, use of graphic organizers, literature webbing, and building background knowledge through the use of questioning. All strategies under study will include tools for implementation.

Course Outcomes:

  • Design and practice with strategies that teach effective reading comprehension in intermediate grades.
  • Scaffold across multiple content area, grades and reading/writing genre.
  • Understand the explicit instruction and teacher modeling methods behind effective reading comprehension curriculum.
  • Teach reading comprehension through strategy as it scaffolds student success across multiple reading and writing genres in core content areas.