COD 2007 - P067

Teaching Reading Strategies

Primary School English Teachers.

2 sessions, start: 14-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2007
Level: Primary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Inés Stefani
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ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 30.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 14 August 2007 02:00 pm 05:00 pm
2 16 August 2007 02:00 pm 05:00 pm

Facilitator/s

Inés Stefani

Inés Stefani is a Uruguayan teacher who graduated from "Magisterio" in 1980 and since then has taught at bilingual schools. In 1989 she graduated as a Reading Recovery teacher in New Zealand. She has worked and studied for 4 years in that country. She later completed a Bachelors of Education in Teaching, and a Masters Degree in Teaching at the University of Auckland in New Zealand as well as a Certificate in School Middle Management, at UNITEC, Auckland, New Zealand. Inés has been doing consultancy work, in the field of literacy acquisition, nationally and internationally, especially in Brazil and Argentina since 2003. She was Academic Principal from 2005 to 2010 and Head of School from 2011 to 2017 at Woodlands School, in Montevideo, Uruguay.
She has just recently retired from that job, after 37 years of teaching, and is back doing consultancy work.She is currently teaching at Universidad de Montevideo at Magisterio Bilingual.
Primary School English Teachers.
- To define what is reading and its implications. - To understand the reading process. - To understand effective reading strategies and how best to teach them. - To design succesful reading programmes. - To know a very effective reading assessment tool: Running records.
Main points to be covered are: - Literacy development: the theoretical basis. - Literacy acquisition: understanding how children best learn to read in order to develop appropriate reading programmes. - Characteristics of emergent and early readers. - The importance of oral language as the key to success in reading and writing. - Defining reading strategies and how best to teach them. - Choosing suitable reading material according to children's interests and needs. - Assessment and assessment tools, in particular Running Records.
Lecture with some interactive instances.
Learning Media: Effective Literacy Procedures. Learning Media: Using running records. Learning Media: Guided reading. Learning Media: Reading in the junior years. Brian Cambourne: The whole story. Marie Clay: Becoming Literate. Regie Routman: Reading essentials. Frank Smith: Joining The Literacy Club.
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