Bridging Word Level Skills to Text Comprehension

This workshop is part of the two-day literacy institute The Science of Deep Reading: Morphology, Syntax, and Meaning-making. Join us for this individual workshop, join the full institute or mix and match days and  to build a personalized experience.

Connect vocabulary and morphology instruction to the comprehension processes students need to construct meaning from complex texts — including making inferences, monitoring understanding, and synthesizing information. You’ll leave with a clear framework for integrating decoding, language, and comprehension into a unified structured literacy approach, along with comprehension scaffolds and strategies ready for immediate classroom use. In the afternoon, in-person attendees will develop a fully planned, ready-to-implement lesson that includes specific teacher actions, a student practice plan, and exemplar student work to inform your feedback — so every student leaves your classroom a more strategic, independent reader.

 Key Learning Objectives:

• explain key comprehension processes, including making inferences, monitoring understanding, and synthesizing information, and their role in constructing meaning from complex text
• apply explicit, systematic instructional routines that support comprehension development
• integrate word-level skills (vocabulary, morphology, multisyllabic decoding) into text-based instruction to strengthen overall comprehension
• design structured opportunities for student practice and discourse that promote active meaning-making and strategic thinking during reading
• develop and refine a comprehensive lesson plan that includes modeling of comprehension strategies, aligned student tasks, and exemplar student responses to guide feedback and assessment

Presenters: Alison Leveque PhD, Dana Carr-Ford, MA, MsEd, Kinjal Nicholls, MA
Audience: Grades 3-8 educators

Way to take the full workshop:

• 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET, virtual