Staff Development Focus: Content-Area Reading

Professional Learning Goals

• Investigate the most effective techniques for introducing informational texts to students.
• Discover effective strategies that support students in deciphering difficult texts.
• Explore literacy instruction within the context of the content areas.
• Understand "frontloading"—what it is and how you incorporate it into your lessons.
• Share activities that enable students to develop a tool belt of reading strategies.
• Discuss the importance of meaningful research and enticing ways to represent it.

• Harvey "Smokey" Daniels
• Carol Jago
• Barbara King-Shaver
• Marlene Thier