Course: Reading Strategies Workshop
Back to School Night 2015
Teacher: Mrs. Jennifer Miller
Contact Information:
-School Phone: (571)252-2030
-Email: JENNIFER.L.MILLER@lcps.org
Course Description:
This class is an interactive workshop with a focus on strengthening basic
reading skills. Instruction will focus on phonics, fluency, comprehension, critical
thinking, vocabulary, reading engagement, viewing, and test-taking. It will be
differentiated according to students’ needs. This class is not intended as a
resource class or curriculum support for language arts but as an interactive
workshop designed to increase reading competence.
Course Goals:
 Be skillful by using strategies to decode and comprehend text
 Increase their vocabulary
 Recognize that reading is meaning making
 Read and comprehend a variety of genres
 Make connections with text: text to text, text to self, text to world
 Be engaged in reading
 Feel capable and confident as readers
 Be critical thinkers
 View visual messages thoughtfully and critically both in print and non-print
materials
 Apply reading skills and strategies to content areas
 Respond to literature orally and/or in writing
 Read on grade level or at least, make one year’s growth in reading
(Taken from LCPS Course Syllabus
Basic Components of the Course:
 Teacher read aloud
 Independent reading time
 Reading workshop activities
 Mini-lessons on specific reading skills
 Notebook/Portfolio assessment