Academies & Institutes
For more information on our institutes and academies, click on the link below.Secondary Reading Comprehension : Removing the Fluency Barrier
Presenter: Eric Walker
Workshop Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration time: 8:30 am
Registration fee: $175 per day ($150 for Texas ASCD
members)
Available as a
one day institute or a two day intensive academy.
Please contact our office to schedule this institute at your location.
Summary: Every day secondary English/Language Arts teachers face students with different independent and instructional reading levels within the same classroom. In today's climate of high-stakes testing, they consequently confront a seemingly impossible task: facilitating student mastery of the TEKS SEs when many students read below grade level and need differentiated instruction in order to develop the metacognitive skills necessary for "reading to learn." The first step in addressing this challenge is providing middle and high school teachers with the tools they need to integrate direct instruction in reading into their lessons. This session addresses ways to do this without sacrificing the teaching of rigorous content and the attainment of high standards by all students.
Eric Walker is
an instructional specialist for secondary reading/language arts in the
Dallas Independent School District. Over the last twenty years, he has
taught at the middle, high school, and college level and now works with
schools serving students in grades 6-12 to promote the use of
research-based instructional strategies through classroom
demonstrations, workshops, and graduate courses. In addition to writing
curricula, he develops district benchmarks and is the creator of the
Dallas Schools Television show âThe Reading/Writing
Expressâ in which
he portrays Conductor Instructor, a guide who takes students on
journeys into strategies used by successful readers and writers. For
the past three years, he has helped ten Dallas high schools that are
organized into smaller learning communities as they have implemented
reading strategies across the content areas, and he works continuously
to align the written, taught, and tested curricula to ensure that all
students succeed.
Who Should Attend: Educators and Administrators
of secondary English/Language Arts Learners
To register by purchase order or a check, download a registration form (PDF) or call 1-800-717-2723 ext. 10 for assistance.
