2 CREDIT COURSES—$280
Readers Theater: Improving Students’ Fluency
Readers Theater is a rehearsed group presentation of a script proven to enhance fluency, expression, cooperative learning, and learning course content. The course is designed for 1st-12th grade classroom teachers, Title I teachers, special educators, teachers of second languages, speech pathologists and reading specialists. This course incorporates the NCLB/ Reading First Goals for enhancing education with researched approaches to teaching reading. At the end of the course participants will have a large repertoire of wonderful tools for conducting Readers Theater.
An Academic Approach to Preparing Students for Standardized Tests
Do you want to increase students’ standardized/state test scores without teaching to the test? This online course will explore ways to teach test taking strategies during regular reading instructional and assessment activities. Research has shown that when students understand the mechanics of test taking, their performance improves.
3 CREDIT COURSES—$330
Literature Circles: Book Club for Kids
Would you like your students enthusiastic about reading? Then it's time to learn how to successfully implement literature circles in your curriculum. Literature circles provide a technique where students strengthen their reading skills by meeting and discussing books with peers. Recent research has linked literature circles with improved student achievement scores. This course is designed for 1st – 12th grade educators. Components of the course include book selection, student roles, strategies for conducting successful literature circles, book projects, managing groups, student assessment and aligning standards.
Instructor– Judy Kvaale
Math and Literature: Making a Connection
Enrich any math program with exciting math and literature lessons. Students can learn mathematics through the many children's books that relate to math concepts. Literature-based math instruction is beneficial to the students in that it involves them and provides a familiar structure to explore mathematics. This course will examine ways to use literature to teach Numbers and Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, Data Analysis and Probability, Problem Solving and Process Standards.
Instructor– Judy Kvaale
Reduced rates for groups of 3 or more.
*For more information or to register, please contact the instructor.
