Description
This course will cover:
- What is close reading?
- Vocabulary and diction
- Questioning the author
- Visualization
- The five Es for approaching literacy
Presenter Bio
Dr. Katherine McKnight is a dynamic presenter, dedicated teacher, and award-winning author. Dr. McKnight began her career in education over 30 years ago as a middle school and high school English and social studies teacher in the Chicago Public Schools and appointed as Distinguished Professor of Research at National Louis University. In addition to speaking at professional development conferences, she is a regular consultant in schools and classrooms in the United States and Europe.
She is the founder of Engaging Learners, an educational company built around her successful Literacy and Learning Center model. Her work in educational leadership, literacy and student skill development has resulted in unprecedented academic achievement in many struggling schools.
Dr. McKnight has received several awards for her publications and teaching at the university level. She has authored 17 books that support educational strategies to engage all learners. Her titles include the best-selling The Teacher’s Big Book of Graphic Organizers, winner of the 2013 Teachers’ Choice Award. She’s also written The Second City Guide to Improv in the Classroom, Teaching Writing in the Inclusive Classroom, and the twin volumes: Common Core Literacy for Math, Science, and Technical Subjects, and Common Core Literacy for ELA, History/Social Studies, and the Humanities: Strategies to Deepen Content Knowledge – Grades 6-12.
Mary – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Great course with concrete ideas to implement teaching comprehension!
Shay – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
This was great!
mary – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
I learned lots of new reading strategies to engage students and ways to trick kids into re- reading the text again.
Rachel – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Great strategies for developing your reading inner voice and visualization.
Alma – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Great training!
Lyndsay – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
loved how it engages students
Alexandra – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
It was not useful for me in my area.
Val – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
It was good but I have been using the Five E’s for quite some time now.
Dianna – VAN WERT CITY (verified owner) –
I appreciate the strategies provided to either add to my toolbox or to affirm ones I have used before.
Calvin – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Great hands-on and practical strategies to build reading comprehension.