Dr. John Strucker Reading Series: Improving Functional Reading Skills for Successful Comprehension (NE)
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- Overview
- This workshop will focus on the print skills that support successful reading comprehension--word analysis (phonics), word recognition, and oral reading fluency and how to assess and teach these skills to learners at different levels. Videos will be shown of proven techniques for teaching word analysis to lower level learners. The importance of using readability formulas for selecting appropriate texts for fluency practice will also be discussed, and participants will have the opportunity to practice using diagnostic tests of word analysis and word recognition and identify some of the practical challenges of this methodology and brainstorm possible solutions.
- Details
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This is the second workshop of three in the Dr. John Strucker Reading Series. (Don't miss Dr. Strucker's bio below!) Because this series builds upon concepts and strategies from one workshop to the next, it is highly recommended that you take the opportunity to attend all three workshops.
"Vocabulary Development for Native and Non-Native Speakers of English" January 23, 2010
"Successes and Challenges of Implementing Key Reading Strategies" March 27, 2010
*Please Note – Professional Development Points PDPs) are available:*
The John Strucker Series qualifies for Professional Development Points (PDPs). To be eligible for PDPs, you must attend all three (3) of the workshops in the series, and complete an application to practice activity, which you would implement following the second workshop and have to opportunity to share your experience at the final workshop.
- When
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February 20, 2010
from
09:00 am
to
12:00 pm
- Where
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- On campus (see below)
- Northern Essex Community College
- 45 Franklin St.
- Lawrence, MA. 01840
- Registration Deadline
- Feb 12, 2010 at 12:00 AM
- Topics
- ABE, ESOL, GED, Assessment, Curriculum Development
- Contact info
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Janet Piracha
jpiracha@necc.mass.edu
978-738-7304 - Indicators of Program Quality
- IPQ1 - Curriculum and instruction
- Learning objectives
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Participants will be able to:
- Identify and describe print skills and how they are assessed;
- Explain how the print skills needs of non-native speakers of English vary depending on their level;
- Understand the concept of readability and how to determine a text's readability using readability formulas;
- Administer word analysis and word recognition diagnostic tests to English language learners and interpret what the results mean for instruction;
- Identify some of the challenges to administering diagnostic tests of print skills to English language learners and be able to discuss possible solutions to those challenges.
- Presenters
- Dr. John Strucker
- Presenters Bio
- Dr. Strucker is one of the most highly influential leaders in the field of adult literacy and reading in the U.S. today. He is one of the collaborating framers in the construction of the revised MA English Language Arts Reading Strand of the Curriculum Frameworks. For the past twelve years he has been Research Associate at the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), and a Lecturer in the Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE), where has been teaching a laboratory practicum course, "Developing Reading in Adults and Older Adolescents." Dr. Strucker received his Doctorate from Harvard GSE in 1995. He is a member of the National Institute for Literacy's Adult Reading Expert Group.
- Prerequisites
- This is the second workshop of three in the Dr. John Strucker Reading Series. Because this series builds upon concepts and strategies from one workshop to the next, it is highly recommended that you take the opportunity to attend all three workshops
- Host RSC
- Northeast Massachusetts Region
- PDPs
- yes
