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Let’s Build Bridges: Reading with Multilingual Students How does a reading workshop work in a multilingual classroom? Review the approaches to reading: shared, guided, and independent. Learn how to integrate nonfiction into your reading workshop to improve students’ vocabulary. Incorporate a hands-on assessment strategy to demonstrate their comprehension. Making Inferences Add a new strategy lesson to your repertoire. This workshop demonstrates the use of the reading approaches while teaching students how to make inferences. We will integrate small group instruction and examine how we make inferences across content areas using nonfiction text. Let’s Talk: Fostering Student-Led Discussions in the Classroom Do your students love to talk, but struggle during class discussions? Do you struggle with literature circles because your students don’t know how to have conversations without you as facilitator? Learn how to integrate Socratic seminar into your classroom and enrich your students’ discussions while improving their reading comprehension. Help! They Can’t Read Their Textbooks! Do you have content to cover and have students who can’t/don’t/won’t read their textbooks? How can you integrate the reading approaches while teaching your content? Learn reading strategies that will not only enhance your students’ content area reading comprehension but also build their background knowledge. What? You Want Me to Write? Tired of struggling with students in order to get them to write? Learn effective strategies to scaffold writing for your students and engage them in the act of writing. Bringing Reading & Writing Together Using Comparison & Contrast Do you teach reading and writing skills in isolation? This workshop demonstrates how we can improve our students’ ability to compare and contrast while integrating reading and writing. Learn how to develop students’ skills as writers using the structural pattern of comparison and contrast. Explore how this strategy works in their world. Beth's Bibliography Handout |
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