Literacy Essentials: Building Comprehension in the Primary Grades

3 credits/60 Clock hrs
3 Graduate Credits for $375 or 60 Clock Hours for $199 - You Choose!
(all course materials included)

Tap into a wealth of techniques to help your primary students better comprehend what they read. Real life examples and dozens of scenarios demonstrate effective ways to: select the perfect books, model think alouds, assist students in making important connections, and empower your students to have meaningful conversation about the texts they are reading. Watch your students become thoughtful and independent readers!

Goals and Objectives: As a result of participation in this course, students will be able to:

  1. Understand techniques to model a Think Aloud.
  2. Design mini lessons for inferring and synthesizing.
  3. Develop strategies to support students comprehension through meaningful conversation.
  4. Demonstrate how to make connections with the text, through self, other text and world.

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Kelly Moorman
Cleves, Ohio

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