COD 2012 - KP127

Building reading skills in children

Kindergarten and Lower Primary teachers.

3 sessions, start: 10-May

Course detail

Year: 2012
Level: Kindergarten / Primary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Luciana Fernández
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ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 300.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 10 May 2012 09:00 am 12:00 pm
2 24 May 2012 09:00 am 12:00 pm
3 07 June 2012 09:00 am 12:00 pm

Facilitator/s

Luciana Fernández

Luciana Fernández is a graduate teacher of English who has been teaching English for the past twenty-nine years. She has specialized in Methodology and Teaching Practice and she holds a Diploma in Educational Research from the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education. She holds two post graduate certifications in Thinking Cultures and Teaching for Comprehension

She is a Reading and Literacy expert and has been training teachers in this area for the past fifteen years. She is a teacher educator and has designed several presentations and courses for professional development both in Argentina and abroad. Her presentation at ARTESOL 2015 was selected to be presented at TESOL International as a Best Affiliate Session. She is one of the 50 scholarship winners who attended and presented at IATEFL, held in Birmingham in April 2016. She was later on invited to be a presenter at the Young Learners and Teenagers SIG pre conference event and at the main conference.

Luciana has been the Head at several bilingual IB institutions in Buenos Aires. At present she is a school advisor, teacher trainer and facilitator at ESSARP (English Speaking Scholastic Association of the River Plate), where she trains heads and teachers from the most important bilingual institutions in Argentina.
Kindergarten and Lower Primary teachers.
Get participants to:

- Understand what skills children need to learn in order to be able to read effectively.
- Get to know how these skills canbe taught and developed.
- Learn to assess these skills effectively.
- Get acquainted with the type of material that best suits the practice of each of these skills.
- Reading skills.
- Reading strategies.
- Assessment and assessment tools.
- The Reading continuum.
- Effective reading programmes.
In the different sessions students will:

- Read material.
- See other teachers in action.
- Siscuss and analyse cases.
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