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CRM conducts Institutes that provide middle and high school teachers
with practical strategies for improving reading and writing in the
content areas. The Institutes are valuable for middle and high
school content area teachers in English language arts, social
studies, mathematics, and science, for school administrators and
coordinators of curriculum and instruction, and for literacy
specialists.
Institute Topics Include:
- How to model the best practices of good readers in your content
area
- Techniques for motivating adolescents to read content-area texts
- How to help students effectively use content-area reading
materials and texts
- Content-rich vocabulary strategies
- Strategies to improve reading comprehension
- Synthesizing activities to improve content retention and
understanding
- Resources that support literacy development in specific content
areas
- How to plan instruction that integrates literacy and
content-area learning
- Next steps for your school - guidelines for sharing and
implementing what you've learned
Institute participants receive:
- A notebook of specific reading comprehension strategies,
vocabulary building activities, and graphic organizers
- A Literacy Framework for working with adolescents
The book: Adolescent Literacy Resources: Linking Research and
Practice
- Practical articles about reading and writing in the content
areas
- A resource bibliography
- Content-specific and cross-curricular materials for classroom
use
Institute leaders have extensive expertise in the area of adolescent
literacy and extensive experience in working with schools to facilitate
the integration of literacy skills into the curriculum.
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