1. Reading Comprehension Presenter: Jane Clayton

2. Professional Development I hope that I die during an in- service session because the transition from life to death would be so subtle.

3. 5 Essential Elements to Support Adolescent Learning Collaborative Leadership Assessment Accelerated Intervention Strategic Teaching Professional Development

4. Strategic Teaching “As educators, we are ineffective when our students are actively engaged in a meaningless task or passively involved in a meaningful one.” “As educators, we are ineffective when our students are actively engaged in a meaningless task or passively involved in a meaningful one.”

5. Strategic Teaching Strategic teaching is the process of incorporating purposeful planning, connected strategies, and explicit instruction to maximize the understanding and retention of content material.

6. The strategic teacher plans lessons with the outcome in mind. The outcomes of strategic lessons move the students toward mastery of content standards. The strategic teacher plans and facilitates engaging lessons. Students in strategic classrooms her the opportunity to talk, listen, read, write and investigate everyday while actively involved in the learning process. The strategic teacher builds assessment into every lesson. The Strategic Teacher

7. Explicit Instruction: The KEY to Success Explicit Instruction enhances learning for ALL students. New skills should always be taught explicitly. 4 STEPS: 1. Introduce the skill. 2. Model the skill. 3. Guided practice w/ the skill. 4. Independent practice & generalization 4 STEPS: 1. Introduce the skill. 2. Model the skill. 3. Guided practice w/ the skill. 4. Independent practice & generalization

8. Brainstorming Pre-Reading Activity Group Activity for helping students recall what they know. Quantity is highly values Brisk pace

9. Brainstorming Why use it? Can help students see that they aren’t starting completely cold. Signals that you believe they are active learners from the start, rather than just passive vessels enter the subject without a clue.

10. Text Coding During Reading Activity A quick way for students to become conscious of and to record mental responses to their reading During Reading Activity A quick way for students to become conscious of and to record mental responses to their reading

11. Text Coding Why use it? Many students are not accustomed to thinking actively as they read. Symbols help to remember a strategy, notice thinking, and note where in the text the thinking occurred. We must provide mechanism of thinking deeply, rather than telling them to “really think” about the material.

12. ABC Brainstorm: On your own (2 minutes) With a partner (2 minutes) In a collaborative group (2 minutes) Sharing