Vocabulary, Fluency and Critical Comprehension

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Overview

Are your students becoming critical readers? What are the components of reading instruction that enables ABE students to attain reading skills and strategies for fluency and critical comprehension? How are these strategies for fluency applied in the reading tasks needed for schooling, work and life at home or in the community? Recent theory development and research into reading competencies among adult learners has resulted in new and dynamic evidence-based instructional design. This workshop will give an overview of these developments and provide opportunites for teachers to integrate new reading instructional approaches into their teaching practice.

Details

As a result of this participatory workshop, participants will be able to: 1. Identify current theory and research concerning adult reading instruction. 2. Ultilize the Adult Reading Components Study (ARCS) materials focusing on vocabulary, alphabetics, fluency, and comprehension. 3. Link current theories of reading instruction to the Massachusetts ABE English Language Arts frameworks. 4. Identify appropriate instructional applications for use in their practice.

When

February 19, 2008 from 12:30 pm to 04:30 pm

Where

• Adult Literacy Resource Institute/SABES Greater Boston Regional Support Center, Wheatley Building 4th Floor, Room 04-167/Library, UMass Boston, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA
• Adult Literacy Resource Institute/Greater Boston SABES
• University of Massachusetts Boston
• 4th Floor, Wheatley Buidling, Room 04-167 (library)
• 100 Morrissey Boulevard
• Boston, MA 02125

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Registration Deadline

Feb 05, 2008 at 5:00 PM

Topics

ABE, ESOL, GED, Other Curriculum & Instruction

Multi-session attendance required

no

Contact info

For activity information contact: Deborah Schwartz. For registration information contact: Andrea Lawless @ 617-287-4079.
andrea.lawless@umb.edu
(Deborah Schwartz: (617) 287-4072

Indicators of Program Quality

IPQ1 - Curriculum and instruction

Learning objectives

Participants will be able to: 1. Identify current theory and research concerning adult reading instruction. 2. Utilize the Adult Reading Components Study (ARCS) materials focusing on vocabulary, alphabetics, fluency, and comprehension. 3. Link current theories of reading instruction to the Massachsuetts ABE Language Arts frameworks. 4. Identify appropriate instructional applications fo use in their practice.

Presenters

Sally Gabb

Presenters Bio

Sally Gabb has more than 30 years experience with Adult Basic Education reading, as an instructor, educational program director, and professional developer. She holds a cerficate of Advance Graduate Study in adult developmental reading, and now works as a reading specialist for Bristol Community College.

Host RSC

Boston Region

PDPs

no