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Workshop Detail: Thursday, July 23, 2009
(K-2): Promoting Early Literacy Skills with Nonfiction Text: Creating Cross-Curricular Connections
presented by
Maria Tamez, MAT, Education Consultant, Region 4 ESC
Curriculum Developed by Maria Tamez, MAT, Education Consultant, Region 4 ESC
Participants will explore ways to utilize nonfiction text in order to build vocabulary and comprehension. Each participant will receive a high-interest nonfiction book along with ideas for supporting early readers through effective questioning strategies and activities that engage students in making cross-curricular connections.
Participants will:
- leave with a colorful, high-interest nonfiction book written with the beginning reader in mind.
- explore hands-on instructional techniques to extend comprehension and promote higher order thinking skills such as storyboarding and choice cards.
- partake in a reader-response activity using a graffiti wall for interactive writing and experience first-hand the benefits of using this instructional technique to differentiate instruction while reinforcing reading, writing, and research skills.
Maria Tamez, MAT, is a Reading Education Specialist employed at Region 4 Education Service Center. She develops products and provides professional development workshops for K-2 educators. Among the products she has created are K-2 Tier II intervention curricula, Multisensory Literacy Activities, and most recently nonfiction lap books for teaching students how best to navigate expository texts.
Summer Institute, a component of the MIDAS Project, is supported by a