Staff Development Focus: Comprehension

Professional Learning Goals

• Investigating research-based strategies for deepening reading comprehension;
• Exploring classroom management strategies for teaching comprehension;
• Learning how to assess and trouble-shoot students’ learning based on an understanding of the cueing systems that allow skilled readers to make sense of what they read;
• Identifying quality children’s literature that can be used to support the teaching of comprehension strategies.

• Kylene Beers
• Jim Burke
• Harvey "Smokey" Daniels
• Patricia A. Edwards
• Michael P. Ford
• Sharon E. Hill
• Mary Howard
• Carol Jago
• ReLeah Cossett Lent
• Michael F. Opitz
• Frank Serafini
• Sharon Taberski
• Susan Zimmermann