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.

Program Highlights

• How can we rethink the way we define and describe comprehension to children and with our colleagues? We'll begin with our own comprehension in adult texts and extrapolate to the classroom.
• What matters most? In an era of ever-expanding curriculum and assessment demands, how can we focus our instruction on the concepts and strategies that matter most and still have time to delve deeply in understanding? Participants will receive an up-todate compendium of content that matters most for K–12 literacylearning.
• What characterizes the most effective comprehension instruction? We'll explore the qualities observed in the most successful teachers' classrooms.
• What does effective comprehension strategy instruction look like? Participants will have an opportunity to observe as Ellin conducts a demonstration lesson with a small group of local children.
• How do we plan for long-term comprehension strategy instruction? Participants will receive a template to aid in planning for strategy instruction and will have an opportunity practice several key instructional strategies known to be effective in comprehension learning.

Who Should Attend?

Teachers K–8, administrators, curriculum coordinators, literacy specialists, and staff developers.

Time: 8:30 A.M.–3:00 P.M.

TUITION

The cost of this workshop is $189.00 per person. If you register 3 or more participants at the same time the cost is $179.00 per person. For Early Bird rate prices, call 1-800-541-2086 ext. 1151.