Assessment and Instruction of  Students with Language Based Learning Difficulties:Language and Literacy Connections

Join us for a full day workshop featuring Melissa Skoczylas, Speech Language Pathologist, researcher, author, and award winning instructor of Language and Literacy in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, at the University of Alberta.

Come out and learn how a deeper understanding of language can be used to assist with literacy development in the area of reading comprehension. 

Location: Holy Eucharist Centre, 460 Munroe Avenue, Winnipeg, Mb

Cost: $120 (early bird $110)

Registration Deadline: Friday, September 22, 2017

Early Bird:  Tuesday, May 30, 2017

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“Comprehension Strategies that are Tough to Teach: Fostering Metacognition”

with Tanny McGregor

MRA Spring Program on April 14, 2016 at the Victoria Inn in Winnipeg-Wellington Room Registration includes a continental breakfast and lunch.

Comprehension Strategies that Can Be Tough to Teach: Inferring, Determining Importance, Synthesizing
“Tough to teach, tough to learn.” Complex thinking strategies require explicit instruction, modeling and guided practice…and our students need to have the language to notice and name what they’re doing to make meaning of text. This is all very abstract, don’t you agree? What can we do to launch these comprehension Strategies in ways that make them comprehensible, concrete and incremental? In this session we match the “why” with the “what”, providing a menu of options to elevate the level of student thinking when interacting with text. Abstract doesn’t have to mean impossible!

Fostering Metacognition: The Invisible Ingredient in the Reading Recipe
Do you want to foster reflection and metacognition in your classroom? Do you need ideas to help students make these abstract concepts visible and concrete? Let’s explore a multitude of ways to merge research and practice in engaging ways students will love. We’ll use realia (concrete objects or artifacts), images, sketching and complex text to help students understand what metacognition is and what it can do for readers and thinkers. Your students have insightful thinking. Let’s help them reflect upon it and enable them to share their thinking with the world!

Who should attend? K-8, classroom teachers, resource teachers, reading clinicians, literacy consultants, coaches and support teachers, school teams, administrators.

Registration Information: Limited seats, so don’t delay.

• Early Bird (on or before Feb. 1, 2016) MRA Member $100 Non- member $125
• Regular Cost (after Feb. 1, 2016) MRA Member $115 Non-member $140

For further information or inquiries contact: Sandi Shaw-Lyons-President, Manitoba Reading Association- sshawlyons@plpsd.mb.ca

Register on-line at: http://www.manitobareading.org