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Subject: EDUCNumber: 793
Title: Literacy Essentials: Building Comprehension in the Primary Grades
Level: GraduateMedium: Text-based
Semester: On-goingUnits: 3
Cost: $360Register: Online Registration (LEI courses)
Description: 
Tap into a wealth of techniques to help your primary students better comprehend what they read. Real life examples and dozens of scenarios/examples demonstrate effective ways to: select the perfect books, model think alouds, assist students in making important connections, and empower your students to having meaningful conversation about the texts they are reading. Watch your students become thoughtful and independent readers!
Objectives: 
As a result of this participation in this course, students should:
  1. understand techniques to model Think Aloud
  2. design mini lessons for inferring and synthesizing
  3. develop strategies to support student comprehension through meaningful conversation
  4. demonstrate how to make connections with the text, through self, other text and world
Textbook: 
Instructor: Kyle Pederson, Joe Cotter, Dr. William Martin
Website Updated: September 2, 2008
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