Description
Have you been asked to support reading across content areas, but your teachers don’t see themselves as reading teachers?
This ready-to-use professional development walks teachers through simple, practical strategies they can use immediately to support students in Tier 1 and Tier 1B settings. It is designed for content-area teachers who need clear, doable ways to help students access complex text without requiring deep reading background knowledge.
Instead of sitting through theory, participants experience the challenge firsthand. They read a complex passage, attempt comprehension questions, and then revisit the same text using targeted strategies. This shift helps teachers see exactly where reading breaks down and how to support students in real time.
What makes this training effective:
- Focuses on what to do when students do not learn, aligning to PLC work in real classrooms
- Connects reading struggles directly to content learning gaps
- Models strategies teachers can embed into any lesson, not as an add on
- Participants leave with clear, repeatable moves they can use the very next day.
Strategies included in this training:
- Vocabulary instruction using morphology and prior knowledge
- Using punctuation to improve phrasing and sentence understanding
- Pre-teaching concepts using background knowledge and analogies
- Close reading with Think Marks to track thinking
- Structured discussion after reading
- Summarizing as a mental process during reading
- Click or Clunk comprehension monitoring
- Fix-up strategies focused on accuracy, phrasing, vocabulary, and idea relationships
What’s included:
- 21-slide professional development presentation
- Presentation in three formats:
– PDF (ready to present)
– Canva presentation link (no account required to present)
– Editable Canva template (customize for your campus needs) - Full training script and facilitator guide for each slide
- Complex reading passage with comprehension questions for modeling
- Word Parts Chart for morphology work
- Vocabulary Chart for meaning-making in context
- Built-in discussion prompts and reflection questions
Materials needed:
- Printed passage and charts (one per participant)
- Writing utensils
- Highlighters (multiple colors recommended)
- Optional colored pens for annotation work
Time:
- Approximately 60 minutes as written
- Extendable to 90–120 minutes by adding reading components, Think Marks, or student data analysis discussions
Why this works:
Teachers don’t need more programs. They need clear ways to help students:
- Read the words accurately
- Make sense of sentences
- Understand vocabulary in context
- Monitor their own comprehension
This training shows them how to do exactly that within the lessons they already teach.
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