Supporting Middle and High School Students with Reading Comprehension
- Cost
- 100% Free
- Time to complete
- 3 Hours
Recommended for
Middle and High School teachers
By the End of This Course You’ll Be Able To
- Explain why vocabulary knowledge is important for reading comprehension
- Identify tiered words
- Select important words to teach
- Identify the components of explicit vocabulary instruction
- Describe and implement a routine for explicitly teaching essential words
- Identify the characteristics of typical readers
- Identify the characteristics of students experiencing reading difficulties
- Summarize prior research on reading comprehension practices
- Explain specific and wide questions
- Generate specific and wide questions
- Explain why generating main ideas supports students’ reading comprehension
- Identify the steps in Get the Gist
- Practice generating gists
- Explain the steps for introducing Get the Gist in your classroom
- Identify ways to support students if they have difficulty
In this 3 part webinar series, Dr. Liz Stevens explains and demonstrates various strategies for teaching reading comprehension across content areas in middle and high school.
How it Works
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Learn at Your Own Pace
You don’t have to finish the course all in one sitting. In fact, we recommend you take this course a little bit at a time, incorporating what you’ve learned in the classroom.
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Earn IACET CEUs
In order to pass and receive IACET CEUs for this course, you will first need to complete all the lessons, then complete the end of course assessment with a score of 80% or higher.
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Free Guided Resources
As you go through a course, we’ll introduce you to free resources that will help you implement what you’re learning.
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Never Learn Alone
Have a question on what you’re learning in the course or how to use a resource? Reach out to the Cox Campus community for advice or to lend a helping hand to others.
Lessons
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Lesson 1
Teaching Essential Words Across the Content Areas
Duration 54.5 minutesDr. Liz Stevens addresses the importance of vocabulary instruction across content areas in middle and high school and provides guiding principles and a routine for vocabulary instruction. -
Lesson 2
Using Question Generation to Support Students' Understanding of Content-Area Texts
Duration 54 minutesDr. Liz Stevens explains and demonstrates questioning techniques for supporting students' understanding of text. -
Lesson 3
Getting the Gist
Duration 54.5 minutesDr. Liz Stevens explains and demonstrates "Get the Gist" for helping students generate main ideas when reading text. -
Lesson 4
End of Course Assessment
Duration 15 minutesIn this lesson, you will take the end-of-course assessment and post-course survey. You must score 80% or higher to pass the assessment and receive your certificate of completion.
Your Facilitator
Dr. Liz Stevens
Assistant Professor
Department of Special Education, University of Kansas
FAQs
The Cox Campus is the digital outreach platform for the Rollins Center for Language & Literacy. Our team is composed of experienced teachers, early learning and language experts, neuroscientists, school leaders, speech language pathologists and authorities in adult learning and curriculum design to give all children access to the Science of Reading to change the odds for all children.
When you sign up for the Cox Campus, you'll get access to interactive, video-based courses, hundreds of free printable resources, virtual workshops and webinars from early childhood development experts, and a community of child-pacing professionals and families.
The Cox Campus is for all child-facing adults to work to improve child outcomes and positively impact learning. We have courses and content designed for educators, school district leaders, medical professionals, childcare providers, families, and more.
Everything on the Cox Campus is available at no cost – ever. Thanks to generous partner investments and grant funding, the Cox Campus creates online courses and resources for child-facing adults so literacy is a reality for every child.
All the resources and courses on Cox Campus are created based on the latest research and science in early childhood development. Childhood development experts at the Rollins Center for Language and Literacy at the Atlanta Speech School create all of the content based on strategies they implement in real classrooms.
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