Welcome to Comprehending Nonfiction

    Comprehending nonfiction text is essential for student success in elementary school, middle school, high school, and beyond. This online course provides research-based strategies to improve students’ abilities to comprehend nonfiction text in reading and other content areas. At the end of the course, you will understand why children struggle with informational texts and will acquire a collection of useful strategies to help students successfully read, understand and enjoy nonfiction text.

    Each Module describes the assignments for this course. All the links, other than the Modules, open in a new window, which means all you have to do to return to the course page is click the X on the top right corner. The course page will be behind the linked page.

Please take some time to navigate this course.

                                             

Ready to begin! Click on Module 1 to begin the course.

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Comprehending Nonfiction

CTED583

Instructor:

Judy Kvaale

Disclaimer

Some parts of this course are online based, which means that you will be visiting sites and reading articles that are found online. Occasionally you may encounter problems and be unable to access a website. If this occurs, go to another assignment or module and return to the problem site at a later time. If the problem continues for two days, please notify the instructor. I will provide you a secondary plan.

Please note: If you have not registered online with UST or have only completed the Online Account Setup, you must complete the registration process before beginning this course. The online registration directions can be accessed by clicking the following link:  directions