Much of the Language Comprehension section is similar to Scarborough's Rope. Newer categories, found in the Active View of Reading based on reading science, are Cultural and Other Content Knowledge and Theory of Mind. Cultural and Other Content Knowledge includes work on the role of students' prior and background knowledge to improve reading. Theory of Mind refers to a reader's ability to empathize with characters or people in books.
Each accordion below has self-paced asynchronous professional learning modules with a mix of video and text resources, opportunities for application and reflection, and contact hours.
If you would like a contact hour for your work, please e-mail Kathy.Bertini@maine.gov
- Cultural and Other Content Knowledge
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Use the links below to access the asynchronous professional learning modules and explore the resources.
- Culturally Responsive Teaching & The Brain by Zaretta Hammond
- Concept Foundations and Formation module focuses on how to make connections within and across content areas, supporting student learning, engagement, and transfer of knowledge and skills.
- Overarching Ideas module focuses on how to identify the big ideas to make connections within and across content areas.
- Teaching for Transfer webpage provides 2 pathways for supporting instruction to engage learners in connecting and transferring their learning.
- Path 1: Learning That Transfers - Acquire, Connect, Transfer module based on the work of Julie Stern
- Path 2: Make Learning Visible - Surface, Deep, Transfer module based on the work of John Hattie
- Reading-specific Background Knowledge
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Use the links below to access the asynchronous professional learning modules and explore the resources.
- AIM Steps to Literacy Learning Modules - Module 5: Language Comprehension & Written Expression
- AIM Steps to Literacy Learning Modules - Module 8: Specialized Reading Knowledge Bundle - English Learners
- Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices (WWC Practice Guide) provides four evidence-based recommendations that teachers can use to deliver reading interventions to meet the diverse needs of their students.
- Adolescent Literacy Intervention Selection Tool (A-List Tool) provides information about literacy programs for grades 4-12 to help educators make informed intervention program choices.
- Verbal Reasoning
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Use the links below to access the asynchronous professional learning modules and explore the resources.
- Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balanced Literacy Classroom (K-2), by Jan Burkins and Kari Yates - "Shifting the Balance" is a literacy book that provides practical strategies for teachers to bridge the gap between traditional phonics-based instruction and balanced literacy approaches. It aims to improve student outcomes by integrating research-based practices and offering actionable steps for enhancing reading instruction.
- Shifting the Balance: Grade K-2 Downloads webpage: Dialogic Conversation to Develop Oral Language
- Shifting the Balance, Grades 3-5: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balanced Literacy Classroom, by Katie Cunningham, Jan Burkins, and Kari Yates - "Shifting the Balance" is a literacy book that provides practical strategies for teachers to bridge the gap between traditional phonics-based instruction and balanced literacy approaches. It aims to improve student outcomes by integrating research-based practices and offering actionable steps for enhancing reading instruction.
- Florida Center for Reading Research - provides resources on metaphors and idioms
- Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balanced Literacy Classroom (K-2), by Jan Burkins and Kari Yates - "Shifting the Balance" is a literacy book that provides practical strategies for teachers to bridge the gap between traditional phonics-based instruction and balanced literacy approaches. It aims to improve student outcomes by integrating research-based practices and offering actionable steps for enhancing reading instruction.
- Language Structure
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- Executive Skills and Reading Comprehension by Kelly Cartwright.
- Why Do I Have to Read this? by Cris Tovani
- Theory of Mind
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Use the links below to access the asynchronous professional learning modules and explore the resources.
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The Science of Reading Progresses: Communicating Advances Beyond the Simple View of Reading - provides a definition and explanation of the Theory of Mind.
- Executive Skills and Reading Comprehension by Kelly Cartwright. In Ch 7, Cartwright discusses the role of Theory of Mind on comprehension.
- Why Do I Have to Read this? by Cris Tovani
- Reading Rockets - article on Exploring the Theory of Mind, Weak Central Cohesion, and Executive Functioning in ASD
- Reading Rockets - Picture Book and Emotional Literacy
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