COD 2017 - P222

Fluency is more than reading quickly!

Primary school heads and teachers

1 sessions, start: 16-Jun

Course detail

Year: 2017
Level: Primary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Luciana Fernández
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ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 400.00
Non affiliate
ARS 400.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 16 June 2017 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.
Primary school heads and teachers
Get participants to:

- understand why reading fluency matters and how we can develop it in our students.
- understand the different components of reading fluency: accuracy,rate, prosody.
- discuss and understand the different factors that influence fluency.
- plan instruction that is designed to building fluency and comprehension.
- Reading fluency.
- Accuracy, speed, rate, prosody.
- Language factor influencing fluency.
- Good practices for reading fluency and comprehension.
In the session we will:

- read about the topic.
- discuss cases.
- see other practitioners in action.
- get resources, ideas and more.
To be specified.
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