COD 2012 - P131

Effective Classroom Practices for Developing Reading Comprehension in young learners

Grades 1 & 2 teachers.

1 sessions, start: 13-Feb

Course detail

Year: 2012
Level: Primary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Luciana Fernández
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ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
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Non affiliate
ARS 80.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 13 February 2012 09:30 am 12:30 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.
Grades 1 & 2 teachers.

Get participants to:
- Get acquainted with research related to reading comprehension.
- Pay attention to the different factors that affect reading comprehension.
- Learn how to explicitly teach strategies that foster reading comprehension in beginning readers.
- See how talking about the text helps.
- Learn about useful practices to develop reading comprehension.
- Research on Reading Comprehension.
- Reading strategies.
- Reading Comprehension assessment.
- Reading Comprehension practices and activities.
In the session participants will:
- Read literature related to the topic.
- See other teachers in action.
- Discuss cases.
- Get acquianted with activities and assessment tools.
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