Reading comprehension is an essential classroom and life skill that allows students to access curriculum content and learn new vocabulary, as well as fostering imagination. In order to comprehend written information, students require a solid foundation in oral language comprehension, as well as the skills of word recognition and decoding. Students who demonstrate reading comprehension difficulties benefit from additional support – this webinar aims to discuss and demonstrate a range of strategies for teachers to implement in their classroom to help these students.
In this webinar attendees will expect to investigate:
- Oral language comprehension as the foundation for reading comprehension
- Strategies to support students’ reading comprehension, including:
– Explicit instruction of reading comprehension strategies
– Adjustments to texts/activities to support comprehension
– In-class reading comprehension activities
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Webinar Documents
SALDA Blank’s Levels of Questioning
Blank’s Levels of Questioning is a questioning framework developed by Marion Blank, a renowned psychologist. There are four levels of questioning which move from simple, concrete questions to more difficult, abstract questions. Blank’s questions encourage development of general language and vocabulary as well as skills in comprehension, reasoning, inferencing, predicting and problem solving (Blank, 2000).
Login to downloadSALDA Expressive and Receptive Language
Language refers to the way people share information with one another. Language can be broken down into expressive and receptive language. Expressive language is the ability to put thoughts into understandable words and sentences. Receptive language is the ability to take in and understand information.
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