Focus on Understanding texts: The components of reading - Blended learning
Provides an opportunity to explore the cognitive process involved in reading and how to plan for explicit reading instruction model the understanding of texts.
Description
This professional learning provides Years 3-8 teachers with an introduction to the cognitive process involved in reading and how to model the understanding of texts.
- Module 1: A framework for understanding reading
- Module 2: The reading landscape
- Facilitated session: Conditions for reading improvement.
Completing this blended learning course will help you to:
- consider the complex cognitive processes involved in reading
- consider how reading research, the School Excellence Framework and the What Works Best: 2020 update can inform your teaching of reading
- explore the reading demands across the curriculum
- understand the importance of a whole school reading culture that embraces a shared belief, responsibility, and enjoyment of reading
- investigate the gradual release of responsibility model
- plan for explicit teaching of reading comprehension.
Roles
- Primary Stage 2
- Primary Stage 3
- High School Stage 4
‘Focus on Understanding texts: The components of reading- Blended learning' will contribute to NESA Accredited PD towards maintaining teacher accreditation in NSW. See MyPL for details of the specific Australian Professional Standards for Teachers addressed.
Contact
If you have any questions, contact literacy.numeracy@det.nsw.edu.au.