New Horizons in Reading Comprehension:
What It Means to Understand Deeply and Lastingly
Seminar Schedule
May 7, 2012
Lindner Campus Commons
8:00am Coffee and tea with pastries
8:30am Seminar Begins
11:15am - 12:00pm Lunch Provided
1:30pm - 1:45pm Dessert Break
3:30pm Seminar Ends
WHAT ELLIN SAYS ABOUT THE DAY:
Comprehension instruction has come a long way in the last 15 years! I’d like to join you in a discussion about what’s next. How do we know that children understand deeply and well? What is the purpose and what are the outcomes of comprehension strategy instruction?
These are the questions we’ll tackle through our own reading, a demonstration lesson, and through an examination of the new trends and issues in comprehension instruction.
ELLIN'S HANDOUT - PLEASE PRINT AND BRING WITH YOU
Attend this event and earn 6 CPDUs!
About Ellin Oliver Keene
Ellin Oliver Keene is the author of To Understand (2008), coauthor of Comprehension Going Forward (2011), and coauthor of Mosaic of Thought, Second Edition (2007), all published by Heinemann. She is also the author of Assessing Comprehension Thinking Strategies (Shell, 2006). She has been a classroom teacher, staff developer, and adjunct professor of reading and writing. For sixteen years she directed staff development initiatives at the Denver-based Public Education & Business Coalition. She served as Deputy Director of the Cornerstone Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania for 4 years, where she oversaw literacy and professional learning for teachers in high-poverty schools throughout the nation.
Ellin Oliver Keene is a Heinemann Professional Development provider. She now provides long-term professional development residencies in partnership with Heinemann Professional Development. She lives with her husband, David, and daughter, Elizabeth, in Denver and works with schools and districts around the country.
Author of...
 Mosaic of Thought
When the first edition published ten years ago, Mosaic of Thought became a runaway best seller as the first book to explicitly describe the use and benefits of strategy-based comprehension instruction. Since then, comprehension strategy instruction has exploded, leading to numerous inspiring variations on Mosaic's instructional principles, as well as a widening of the comprehension research base. The second edition offers current insight for classroom teachers, literacy coaches, and school leaders everywhere, and reminds everyone of precisely what effective, long-lasting comprehension teaching looks like.
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 To Understand: New Horizons in Reading Comprehension
In discovering what's really behind comprehension, To Understand goes well beyond comprehension strategy instruction. Keene identifies specific Dimensions and Outcomes of Understanding-characteristics identified in readers with a highly developed ability to make sense of text to help you rethink what comprehension is. To Understand proposes a model that incorporates all aspects of literacy instruction-word learning and comprehension-and describes how teachers can focus on what matters most in literacy content.
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 Assessing Comprehension Thinking Strategies
Developed by renowned author Ellin Keene, Assessing Comprehension Thinking Strategies is an ideal tool for assessing students' reading comprehension. This book offers a unique way of assessing how students use thinking strategies to comprehend text. The book contains four reading passages for each grade level that offer high-interest fiction and nonfiction text.
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