Secondary Pathway Workshop: Spanning the Gamut: Effective Strategies for Increasing Adolescent Disciplinary Literacy

This workshop will begin with an overview of reasons adolescents struggle with academic text and content comprehension. Sharon Russell will guide participants in focusing on questioning and text structure strategies that help make text accessible for students with low literacy proficiency. With Judy Miller, participants will focus on the use of interactive notebooks to help students learn to read like scientists, historians, mathematicians, and literary experts. There will also be an opportunity to engage in text analysis and disciplinary literacy methodologies.