Teaching Struggling Readers in Small Groups Grades 3-8

A 2-Day Institute taught by Irene Fountas
March 24-25, 2011  - Rochester, NY

Learn about key areas of difficulty that are evident in intermediate and middle school readers who are reading below grade level expectations. Help your students meet the common core standards and improve their performance on standardized tests. Meeting students at their instructional reading level with expert teaching that helps them climb the ladder of text difficulty and improve their ability to read texts for other content area subjects. You will learn key teaching strategies that you can use in small group teaching to facilitate student learning as they read short fiction and nonfiction books. You will also learn how to consider the role of text selection, all aspects of deep comprehension, vocabulary and language support in making it easy for struggling students to learn with more ease.  The critical role of fluency and efficient word analysis will also be addressed.

Topic to include:

• Intervention to close the achievement gap
• Observing difficulties in processing
• Determining reading levels
• Understanding texts
• Teaching for comprehension
• Supporting the use of vocabulary and language structure
• Teaching for fluency
• Revisiting texts for comprehension and word analysis

Learn from Literacy Expert Irene Fountas

Dr. Irene Fountas directs a comprehensive school improvement project in the School of Education at Lesley University. She has been a classroom teacher, language arts specialist and consultant in school districts across the nation and abroad and has received numerous awards for her contributions to literacy. Irene and co-author Gay Su Pinnell have published several books with Heinemann, including Guiding Readers and Writers: Teaching Comprehension, Genre and Content Literacy (Heinemann, 2000), Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency: Thinking, Talking, and Writing about Reading (Grades K-8) (Heinemann, 2006) and The Continuum of Literacy Learning, Grades K-8: Behaviors and Understandings to Notice,Teach and Support (Heinemann, 2009).

Costs/Fees:
$595/person (includes listed required professional books)
Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency: Thinking, Talking, and Writing about Reading (Grades K-8) (Heinemann, 2006)
The Continuum of Literacy Learning, Grades PK-8: Behaviors and Understandings to Notice, Teach and Support (Heinemann,2009).

Date:
March 24-25, 2011

Time:
Day 1: 8:30am-3:00pm
Day 2: 8:00am-2:00pm
(1 hour lunch break on your own)
Participants will receive a certificate of attendance

Location:
Doubletree Hotel Rochester
1111 Jefferson Road
Rochester, NY 14623
Tel: 1.585.475.1510

Download the registration form [PDF].

Contact Information:
Alison Buraczenski
Lesley University
Center for Reading Recovery &
Literacy Collaborative
617.349.8424
litcol@lesley.edu