This course is designed for K-12 teachers to learn and use reading comprehension strategies in their classroom. In this course, staff will learn:

*characteristics of direct, explicit methods of vocabulary instructions

*the factors that contribute to deep comprehension

*instructional routines appropriate for each major genre: information text, narrative text, and argumentation

*the role of sentence comprehension in listening and reading comprehension

*explicit comprehension strategy instruction, as supported by research

*active mediator of text-comprehension processes Staff will be compensated for their time. There is only space for 25 teachers.