Breakout Session 4
12:05 - 1:05
Will You
Marry Me? The Union of Content and Literacy
(S.
Pavilion 5)
Content reading is hot right now! But, how do you really embed literacy into content classrooms? Participants will engage in an exploration of instructional approaches, strategies to use on Monday, and ways to build partnerships that deepens and extends student comprehension.
Cindi Koudelka, special education teacher/reading specialist, Fieldcrest HS, Minonk, IL
Building Background Knowledge and Vocabulary to Increase Comprehension in the Content Areas (S. Pavilion 6)
This session is designed to help content area teachers understand the important roles that building background knowledge and vocabulary instruction help students comprehend text. Ways to build background knowledge and vocabulary knowledge will be shared.
Diane McCandless, Gower school district #62, reading specialist, Burr Ridge, IL
Techniques for Organizing Science Notes (Pebble Beach)
Science is a method of discovery. Science reading is an endless list of terms. By organizing science terms by how they relate, readers can discover ideas about nature as well as the nature of science itself.
Jason McGraw, adjunct instructor, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL and Laura Majcin, director of faculty development, Art Institute of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Making History More Than Memorizing Dates: Teaching Meaningful Reading
in Social Studies
(St. Andrew)
Use of the textbook in content area classes is becoming more obsolete because of students’ inability to effectively access and comprehend text. In this session, participants will be exposed to methods that promote student ownership of not only reading strategies but also content. Student data and examples will be provided including formative self-assessments.
Keith
Lichtenberg,
social studies teacher, Downers
Grove North HS, Downers Grove, IL
Participants in this interactive session will experience how to use action strategies and drama-in-education techniques to engage and assist readers to use sophisticated comprehension strategies, like seeing complex implied relationships to make inferences, and understanding authorial generalizations. A variety of creative techniques like forum drama, four corners, hot seating, radio show, and tableaus will be highlighted.
Dr. Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, founder, Boise State Writing Project and Maine Writing Project
The Key to
Writing Fiction–A Look at Story Structure
Ticket
required
(S.
Pavilion 3)
A fun and engaging
approach to classic structure of a story, using recently released popular
movies to identify the author’s underlying message, the conflict,
rising action, crisis, climax, and resolution.
In the process we discuss character development and motivation. The
end result is a greater understanding of story structure as well as the
experience of “thinking like a writer.”
Todd Strasser, YA author, television writer, journalist
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