High School Reading - Back on Track: No More Struggling High School Readers

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How do we build analytical readers for post-secondary learning or job instruction?”

“How do we apply critical thinking strategies to enable higher reading among all secondary students?”

“How do we identify and correct those cognitive deficiencies that inhibit students from reading critically?”

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

 

iRi’s High School Reading professional learning programs are best suited for teachers across content areas where critical reading is required. Teachers will learn to integrate vocabulary and comprehension strategies into daily lessons to enable students to analyze and discuss key concepts in challenging courses.

Back on Track: No More Struggling High School Readers

  • Discover how to identify weak cognitive functions that cause students to read inefficiently and uncritically
  • Learn practical, research-strong collaboration tactics to encourage students to help each other overcome reading hurdles
  • Apply graphic organizers to foster making connections to material
  • Incorporate engaging activities for vocabulary development and fluency into required reading
  • Identify how to use projects on and off the internet to foster student interest in reading
  • Use balanced critical reading techniques to stir student motivation
  • Integrate non-embarrassing reading tactics into daily lessons
  • Use mediation techniques to help students overcome the cognitive challenges of inferring and predicting
  • Blend reading and writing tactics that encourage struggling students to create their own blogs and author their own stories
  • Measure student progress in becoming more critical readers who gather meaning from a variety of texts