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