2019 1025 Comprehension Construction Zone 2 AM Session 2 720p

Designing and delivering informed instruction requires a knowledge of the multidimensional nature of comprehension and the language processes and skills necessary for constructing meaning. It is particularly important for working with at-risk students, including those with dyslexia.
This workshop will present a blueprint, a master plan, for helping students acquire and access these essential skills. Participants will explore why and how to use evidence-informed strategies for developing vocabulary knowledge, sentence comprehension, use of text structure, background knowledge, and inference-making.
This workshop continues our focus on Structured Literacy principles of direct, explicit, systematic, and diagnostic instruction.
Nancy Hennessy, M.Ed., LDT-C, is past president of the International Dyslexia Association and recipient of its Margaret Byrd Rawson Lifetime Achievement Award. She is an experienced teacher and administrator. Hennessy co-authored Module 6 of LETRS, Digging for Meaning: Teaching Text Comprehension (2nd edition) with Louisa Moats, and was a national trainer for Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling (LETRS). As an educational consultant, she presents workshops and training courses to educators nationally and internationally.