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Teaching Comprehension
Each Teaching Comprehension package contains:
A Planning Guide for Professional Learning Preview
» Preview planning guide from the CD-ROM
A comprehensive, 200-page resource for literacy coaches and staff developers. The guide provides more than a year's worth of carefully planned professional development activities, including:
- Professional Development Units of Study: Choose from multiple sessions about instructional practices, planning or each comprehension strategy-or use them all, depending on teacher's needs
- Step-by-Step Instructions: Guide teachers through effective, hands-on development sessions
- Video Viewing Guides: Bring sessions alive with a diverse assortment of classroom-based videos that exemplify each instructional strategy
- Collaborative Activities and Processes: Choose the forum that's most appropriate for your context: peer coaching sessions, study groups, professional development
The Teaching Comprehension CD-ROM
An interactive, multimedia resource designed to support teachers' mastery of effective reading comprehension instruction. Each CD-ROM includes:
- Detailed Information about Effective Comprehension Teaching: Learn from current research on reading comprehension for whole class, small group, and individual instruction.
» Preview resource bank from the CD-ROM - Downloadable Files: Print out, save, or customise more than 220 ready-to-use lesson plans, articles, research findings, and student activities. Preview the following word-doc examples:
- Planning Comprehension
- Prediction/Prior Knowledge
- Questions
- Gathering Information - Summarise Using a Grid
- Text Structures
- Think Aloud
- Visualising
- High Quality Videos: Study successful teachers as they use research-based practices to teach children in real classrooms. Each CD-ROM includes more than 10 videos.
» Preview teaching strategies from the CD-ROM - Virtual Reality Classrooms: Discover the key components of effective classrooms by exploring actual classrooms with 360º views.
- Audio Files: Learn from other teachers as they explain their planning and teaching practices for the whole class, for small groups, and for individual students.
- Rich Database: Customise your learning by choosing your own pathways and making links within and across modules. Plus web links to keep you up-to-date
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