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Connected Workshops: Reading
Bring our Learning Specialists to your school and empower your teachers to help students maximize their learning every day.
Each Workshop is delivered in a relaxed atmosphere at your school site, fostering collaboration and idea sharing among your staff. Participants receive comprehensive handouts with practical tools and resources they can use the next day in class!
Choose from the following list of existing Workshop titles focused on reading instruction, or let's work together to create one of your own:
Camp Connect™ Reading
Overview:
This three-day workshop promotes the integration of technology into the reading curriculum, the improvement of teaching practice, and improved student achievement in the reading curriculum. Participants will acquire the skills and strategies in the areas of understanding Internet tools, understanding NCLB, accessing reading resources, and integrating student activities and projects. All participants will develop a student activity or project that can be immediately used in the classroom.
Objectives:
- Understand how NCLB legislation impacts student learning in reading.
- Locate and evaluate Web sites that support the five essential reading components.
- Classify and organize Web sites according to the five essential reading components.
- Locate Web sites that illustrate the use of higher-level, problem-solving skills.
- Understand how to locate and/or develop Internet lesson plans.
- Locate online content and resources that support local standards.
- Collect Internet content and resources that support the reading curriculum.
- Explore the different types of reading projects.
- Locate and integrate reading activities and projects.
- Understand how to manage project-based learning in the classroom.
- Understand how to create online projects such as hotlists, WebQuests, hunts.
- Create one online activity or project in reading.
Activities: May include demonstrations, guided discussion, modeling, sharing, small group and large group work, collegial interaction through brainstorming and collaborating, creating checklists, action-planning and applications tasks.
Resources: Each participant will receive a comprehensive handout of essential resources specifically designed for this workshop, including classroom activity materials, and URLs for important online tools and resources for educators.
Product: Each participant will develop an online activity or project to emphasize creative technology integration in the reading curriculum.
Target Audience: K-6 Teachers, Teachers of Gifted Students, Mentor/Lead Teachers, Reading/Literacy Coaches, Reading Specialists, Library/Media Specialists, and Resource Teachers.
Recommended Technology Skill Level: All levels
Number of Trainers: Up to 3 trainers
Number of Participants: Up to 60 participants
Duration: Up to 6 instructional hours per day
Meeting Room: Three computer labs required (one computer per participant required).
Equipment to be Provided by Customer: For each lab, a projection system (digital projector, or LCD projector for use with trainer's laptop), overhead projector (as backup projection device), Internet connectivity, whiteboard/chalkboard, 6 ft. table for trainer's laptop, equipment and other materials.
Workshop Overviews
Reading Across the Curriculum
This workshop presents a variety of instructional strategies for students that will enhance their understanding of the concepts being presented in the content areas. These strategies will include examples that students can use to complete their daily content area assignments such as note taking, outlining, studying for a test, or writing a thesis. Information on each of these will be given, their use demonstrated, and ways to modify presented.
Reading: From Research to Reality
This workshop will introduce participants to key recommendations from current research and provide resources to aid in classroom application.
Topics will include the major building blocks of reading success - phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension - as recommended by the National Reading Panel, published in Put Reading First: The Research Building Block for Teaching Children to Read: Kindergarten Through Grade 3.
At the completion of this workshop the participants will be familiar with reading research and resources available online as they apply to teaching reading.
Reading Assessment Intervention
In this workshop, participants will investigate various forms of reading assessments and reading strategies to meet the needs of the students. The Assessment topics will include phonological awareness, alphabet recognition, letter sounds, concept-of-word development, word recognition, spelling, oral reading in context, fluency, accuracy, and reading comprehension. Participants will be introduced to intervention strategies that coordinate with the results of their reading assessment.
Strategies for Struggling Readers
This workshop will expose participants to research-based procedures for teaching students decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension strategies that can be applied across all grade levels. Each strategy will be introduced, modeled and practiced during the workshop. We will also look at a variety of Internet resources that will support reading instruction.
Online Tools That Strengthen Literacy Instruction
This workshop will introduce participants to online tools and resources that serve to bridge the connection between technology and reading. Information gathering, pooling and sharing of data, collaboration, and interpersonal exchanges are some of the online projects that will be presented. This project-based learning approach allows the student to do collaborative problem solving, learn and work in teams, exercise high-level thinking skills, and increase information literacy. Through the use of multimedia, electronic books, and online resources that expand learning opportunities, participants will learn to improve student reading with the goal of fluency, accuracy, understanding, and enjoyment.
Using Technology to Support Reading Standards
In this workshop, participants will create lessons that meet reading standards as well as explore online resources that contain activities that comply with both reading and technology standards. Participants will experience first-hand how adding technology to the mix can formulate exciting, motivating experiences that produce improved reading ability.
Integrating Microsoft Office into Literacy Instruction
In this workshop, participants will go beyond simple word processing as they discover the power and versatility of Microsoft Word through the creation of templates, graphic organizers, and worksheets that assist literacy instruction. In addition, participants will harness the power of multimedia as they create and edit instructional presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint. Exploring the wealth of online resources that contain lesson ideas for Microsoft Office is also important. Participants will leave with skills and resources they can implement immediately in their daily literacy lessons.
Reading and Language Arts Online
In this workshop, participants will discover ways to build important language arts skills in students through technology. Effective strategies will be introduced to enhance the reading skills of students. Participants will learn how to use the Internet to supplement whole language, and build strong reading and writing skills for all students.
Teaching Phonics
In this workshop, participants will be exposed to the scientifically research-based essential components of effective reading instruction that lead to student achievement. This workshop covers the teaching of phonics and phonemic awareness in kindergarten and first grade. It also focuses on the research behind current instructional models, how to turn research into sound classroom practice, and how to use assessment and intervention strategies.
Teaching Text Comprehension
In this workshop, participants will learn proven research-based strategies and techniques to improve their students' reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. Strategies will be presented for helping students to identify the narrative elements of stories, and to identify and analyze relationships between ideas in nonfiction selections. A wide range of reading comprehension strategies: self-monitoring for understanding, using graphic organizers, asking and answering questions, recognizing key points, and identifying organizational text structure will also be presented.
To learn more about Connected Workshops and our other reading professional development programs, call us today at (800) 638-1639.
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