Description
This bundle includes tickets for Comprehension Strategies for Every Subject and Mapping Meaning: Using Graphic Organizers to Boost Reading and Writing.
Comprehension Strategies for Every Subject
Price: $ 120
Date: Wednesday, November 12th from 4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. ET
Instructors: Alison Leveque, PhD and Sarah Martin, EdD
Grades: 2-8
Why this Workshop:
Students encounter complex texts across all subject areas. This workshop explores practical strategies to help learners analyze, interpret, and synthesize text-based information across various academic disciplines. Participants will learn practical strategies to strengthen students’ comprehension and reasoning skills, while navigating challenging texts with greater purpose and precision.
Key Learning Objectives:
- Learn before-, during-, and after-reading strategies that support comprehension across a variety of text types
- Implement effective vocabulary instruction for conceptual understanding, retention, and transfer
- Integrate short, purposeful writing tasks to reinforce understanding and build critical thinking skills
- Leave with a toolkit of strategies, templates, and checklists to make the most of content literacy across subjects
Mapping Meaning: Using Graphic Organizers to Boost Reading and Writing
Price: $ 90
Date: Wednesday, December 3, 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. ET
Instructors: Alison Leveque, PhD and Alicia Kempin, MS
Grades: 2-8
Why This Workshop:
Visual learning tools like graphic organizers help students structure ideas, make connections, and enhance comprehension in both reading and writing. Educators will gain practical strategies for integrating graphic organizers into literacy instruction, making abstract concepts more concrete. Participants will explore various formats, including structured frames, concept and semantic maps, and vocabulary templates to promote content learning and deepen conceptual understanding. Participants will leave with a toolkit of effective graphic organizers for immediate use in the classroom.
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how graphic organizers support comprehension, conceptual thinking, and writing development across literacy tasks
- Gain a versatile set of graphic organizer templates and learn how to select the right one for different learning goals and content types
- Learn how to model the use of graphic organizers through a gradual release of responsibility—from teacher modeling to student independence
- Explore how graphic organizers can support writing projects and unit-based learning by helping students plan, organize, and revise their work
- Develop strategies to integrate graphic organizers effectively at key instructional moments—before reading to activate schema, during reading to monitor thinking, and after reading to synthesize and extend learning
