Hundreds of thousands of teachers have made Ellin Oliver Keene's bestselling book, Mosaic of Thought, coauthored with Susan Zimmermann, their central resource for comprehension teaching. Drawing from the newly published Second Edition, this workshop will invite participants on a journey through the intricacies of the mind, particularly in relation to how we comprehend text. Ellin will demonstrate how to help students become thoughtful, independent readers who can not only negotiate their way through print, but also probe the depths of its content and themes.
Ellin will share a model that helps teachers focus on what is most essential for students' literacy learning and will describe how thinking strategies known to be used by proficient readers enhance and strengthen children's literacy learning. The workshop will help teachers infuse in-depth, meaningful instruction in comprehension into literature-based and secondary content area classrooms where teachers and students explore, learn from, and react to a wide variety of text.
Who Should Attend?Teachers K–8, administrators, curriculum coordinators, literacy specialists, and staff developers.
Time: 8:30 A.M.–3:00 P.M.
