Middle School Reading - Transforming the Middle Grade Reader

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How do we develop world-class critical reading instruction in the middle grades?”

“How do we strengthen cognitive functions that are prerequisites for challenging reading?”

“How do we foster middle grade students’ love for reading?”

“How do we use writing to enable students to analytically explore what they have read?

 

iRi’s Middle School Reading programs are best suited for teachers across curriculum areas who are passionate about dramatically improving critical thinking skills and reading achievement for all students.

Transforming the Middle Grade Reader

  • Discover how to identify weak cognitive functions that cause students to read inefficiently and uncritically
  • Identify how to use projects on and off the internet to foster Middle Graders’ reading interest
  • Learn practical, research-strong collaboration tactics to encourage students to help each other overcome reading hurdles
  • Increase ability of Middle Grade students to make connections to what they read
  • Incorporate fun games for vocabulary development and fluency into required reading
  • Use balanced reading techniques to stir student motivation to improve reading
  • Integrate non-embarrassing instructional tactics into daily reading lessons
  • Use mediation techniques to help students overcome the challenges of inferring and predicting as they read more difficult materials with a critical mind
  • Blend reading and writing tactics that encourage struggling students to author their own stories
  • Measure student progress in becoming more able readers who understand a variety of texts