This course is specialized for teachers 3rd - 5th grade wanting to increase their capacity and skills instructing comprehension. This full-day workshop will feature strategies and lesson ideas to support concepts covered in the USBE approved evidence-based literacy program by Houghton Mifflin Harcout’s Journeys. Participants will also acquire knowledge about DYAD reading in order to build fluency and vocabulary with their students while using complex text. Instructional lessons included will

This course is specialized for teachers 3rd - 5th grade wanting to increase their capacity and skills instructing comprehension. This full-day workshop will feature strategies and lesson ideas to support concepts covered in the USBE approved evidence-based literacy program by Houghton Mifflin Harcout’s Journeys. Participants will also acquire knowledge about DYAD reading in order to build fluency and vocabulary with their students while using complex text. Instructional lessons included will be: 1-A hierarchy of comprehension goals for fiction and informational text: Main Ideas, Key Details, Plot/Setting, Character, Themes, etc. 2-Teaching strategies & variables that impact comprehension: the importance of engagement, stamina, reader’s choice, genre, questioning, activities, etc. 3-Experience DYAD reading while learning the benefits: to increase fluency and comprehension by using challenging text. A professional learning activity will be required following the course instruction. This will include a 2-hour learning task where participants will choose one article from a list of resources to further their understanding of the science of reading. Participants will write a one-page reflection summarizing the information and describing best practices for reading instruction based on current research.