MATL Content Methods II: Secondary ELA

1.5 units

This mini-course focuses on Shared Reading and Independent Reading strategies to aid students in analyzing and comprehending texts. Residents will plan an ELA lesson focused on an RL or RI standard, with a focus on choosing the most appropriate reading strategies to support time-on-text and reading comprehension. In this course, teachers will learn about how students become better readers, and the role and importance of the breadth and complexity of texts utilized in a strong ELA class. They will learn approaches to scaffold reading for all students, but especially for struggling readers, including how to support and balance shared and independent reading, and how to plan scaffolds for comprehension.