When
Thursday, October 2, 2014 - 8:30am-4:00pm-and-
Thursday, October 16, 2014 - 8:30am-4:00pm
Fees:
- Regular fee - $350/person
- Group Rate (2+) - $300/person
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Where
Makepeace Literacy Leadership Center
3 Carver Square Boulevard
Carver, MA 02330
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The adoption of the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts has focused teachers on the practice of close, analytic reading...
From The Reading Teacher:
Close Reading in Elementary Schools
Contact:
MarcyKate Connolly
Hill for Literacy, Inc.
marcykate@hillforliteracy.org
888 860 0190
fax: 888 860 0190
Close Reading and Critical Thinking for the Common Core
Thursday 10/2/2014 & Thursday 10/16/14
How do we fulfill the expectations of the Common Core with struggling readers, advanced readers and everyone in-between, when we know that close reading is a difficult skill even for experienced, adult readers?
Close Reading can be extremely engaging, productive and confidence-boosting for the struggling reader and the advanced reader alike. Critical thinking, a highly valuable skill, together with close reading are the keys not only to the Common Core, but future academic success. Furthermore, how do we extend the thinking around a piece of text, enabling students to access deep meanings, create thinking analogies and encourage perspective taking? How do we provide our students with the ability and opportunity to think critically about ideas while they engage with a piece of text? Participants will explore these questions while cultivating their own ability to think critically about these practices. Workshop is appropriate for K-5.
Day 1:
- Learn strategies for helping students gather evidence, knowledge, and insight from what they read and discuss methods for gradually releasing them towards independence.
- Participate in an adult-level close reading experience. Learn to write text-dependent questions for both narrative and expository genres, and how to provide entry-points for all children through discourse, visual media, and annotation.
- Participants are encouraged to bring a text in order to develop close reading lesson strategies that they can use with their own students.
Day 2:*
- Understand the disciplinary overlaps in CCSS and how elements of critical thinking are integrated throughout.
- Engage in multiple opportunities to think critically using video, social media and primary source texts.
- Explore scaffolds for integrating critical thinking into multiple classroom contexts.
- Plan to apply critical thinking models into reading and writing within your common core classroom.
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Beth Goodwin, M.Ed., CAS is a facilitator at HILL for Literacy, Inc. She earned a Bachelor of Art’s Degree in English from Providence College. Ms. Goodwin also earned a Master’s of Education Degree from Providence College through the Providence Alliance for Catholic Teachers program (PACT). While earning her Master’s, she taught at St. Mary’s Junior-Senior High School in Worcester, MA. Since then, she has worked as an English teacher in the Carver Public School System for ten years where she was a member of the School Council, organized and implemented after school MCAS tutoring, and served as the middle school’s Literacy Coach. While teaching in Carver, Ms. Goodwin earned a Reading Specialist Certificate from The Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions. Ms. Goodwin also has her certification in the practices of Orton-Gillingham, a multi-sensory phonemic approach to reading. She enjoys working with students and being involved in affecting positive school change.