Strategies for Struggling Adolescent Readers and Writers
This session is designed for teachers of struggling readers and writers in 6th-12th grade, teachers of students with special needs, (i.e. ESL, Special Ed.,) administrators, curriculum coordinators. This workshop will be mainly designed for the reading and writing teachers rather than content area teachers, although many of the strategies can be used to help students read in science, social studies, and other classes. The objective is to give teachers the principles and strategies needed to individualize their teaching for students who are working below grade level expectations in reading and writing.
This training will focus on strategies for adjusting your environment and teaching to support the “at risk” learners in the area of literacy, those students who need extra support in reading and writing. Attendees will be given structures and strategies to support students who find reading and writing a challenge and are often working below grade level expectations. The training will address the following:
· Finding time for in school reading and writing practice, setting up reading and writing workshop
· Ways to provide one on one help, peer tutoring, mixed age tutoring, utilizing volunteers
· Coordinating regular classroom teacher with the literacy specialist or resource teacher
· Supporting your “two-language” children
· Setting the struggling student up for success and motivation for those who are working below grade level
· How poverty affects learning and language, and ways to compensate for inexperience with literacy
· Building vocabulary with students who are struggling with literacy
· Strategies and principles for teaching reading and writing to struggling readers and writers
· How to adjust your teaching materials for individual learners
