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Improving Reading for Older Students (Winter 2022)
Welcome to Improving Reading for Older Students!
Welcome! (1:56)
Course Facilitators
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Course Syllabus
Module 1: Laying the Foundations
Module 1 Goals
Opening Activity: consider the Warmth of Other Suns
Video: What Skills and Knowledge Does a Reader Need for Comprehension (8:43)
Video: The 5 Reading Accelerators for Older Students (7:48)
To Read: What Reading Does for the Mind
To Read & Discuss: The Science of Reading
Prep for Activity: "Did I Just Get Smarter?" PDF and Video modeling. (19:20)
Activity: Did I Just Get Smarter?
Final Thoughts Discussion: Module 1
Mid-Course Reflections from Your Instructors
Module 2: Word Recognition and Reading Fluency: the Building Blocks of Confident Literacy
Module 2 Goals
Video: What is Automatic Word Recognition (10:32)
Video: Learn the Ingredients of Automatic Word Recognition (23:43)
Self-check: Automatic Word Recognition
Self-Check: Check on your understanding of fluency
Video: More on Fluency (Automatic Word Recognition) (17:18)
Activity: Create an Analogy
Discussion Thread: Make it Your Own - Improving Fluency Daily With Any Text in Any Class
Video: Model for folding in Word Recognition Supports (27:37)
To Read: Fluency
Discussion of Readings
Activity: Word Study
Supplemental Resources
Module 3: Growing Vocabulary and Growing Knowledge: Helping Students Grow as Readers
Module 3 Goals
Video with activity pause points: Building Knowledge (20:12)
Activity: Leviathan Reading: Part I
Activity: Building Knowledge - Leviathan Reading: Part II
Quiz: Leviathan Reading: Part III
Activity: Langston Hughes (Will V Day Be Me Day) Readings to Build Knowledge (7:41)
Video: Growing Vocabulary (30:29)
Reading: Research Synthesis Knowledge and Vocabulary
Resources: Text Set Resources
Discussion: Module 3
Module 4: The Rest of Reading Comprehension: Habits and Practices of Confident, Successful Readers
Module 4 Goals
Pre-Work: Reading and Structured Journal - must do before starting the video!
Video: The 3 Levels of Representation in the Mind (30:49)
Self-Check: The 3 Levels of Representation in the Mind
Discussion: Proposition-rich Sentences - instructional implications
Video: Macro & Micro Structures (24:13)
Video: Standard of Coherence (18:15)
Video: More on Standard of Coherence (18:06)
Culminating Discussion: Million Dollar Question
Closing Course Reflections from Your Instructors
Course Wrap Up: thank you for bringing your thinking and experience to this course.
Resource: Sustainability Planner for IROS
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