Building Expertise: Sharing Reading Strategies to Boost Student Confidence and Success

Students enter the classroom with varying degrees of confidence in themselves as readers. When we share with students the many reading strategies we use
in our own areas of content expertise, their reading comprehension and confidence increase. This leads to greater student success in understanding class texts and completing reading assignments.

In this online workshop, you will begin with an exploration of yourself as a reader by reflecting on your reading history and how you have developed into an expert reader in your discipline. Using this awareness, you will learn to share with your students the complex cognitive processes you use as a proficient reader – you will, in a sense, “open your mind” to your students.

A variety of metacognitive reading strategies will be demonstrated, as the workshop will include videos and text examples from a variety of content areas and formats (printed texts and e-texts). By the end of the workshop, you will have designed an effective reading mini-lesson you can immediately use in your classroom. Coaching will be provided throughout to guide you in implementing what you learn in your content area.

Last Updated November 14, 2019