In this videotape training program, Linda Hoyt, a recognized expert in the field of reading, demonstrates outstanding comprehension strategies with groups of children, grades 2-5. The strategies are helpful to all readers, but they are especially useful to readers who struggle to construct meaning from text. These strategies give children a set of useful tools that enables them to approach printed material with increased competence and confidence. You will easily be able to incorporate these techniques into your existing reading instruction whether you teach in a classroom or special program.

You will see the following dynamic strategies demonstrated in actual classroom settings:

• Reciprocal Teaching helps students apply the skills of predicting, clarifying, questioning, and summarizing.
• Read-Cover-Remember-Retell focuses children's attention on retaining information from printed text.
• When using V.I.P., struggling readers are able to identify main indeas in a tangible way.
• Good Readers Strategies make an array of practical, useful reading techniques accessible to young readers who struggle over difficult text.
• Two Words is a nonthreatening approach to summarization perfect for children who are overwhelmed by traditional techniques.
• The Alphaboxes strategy provides struggling readers with a structure for brainstorming key elements of stories and articles.
• Sketch to Stretch encourages readers to use visual images to express their understandings of printed material and is also well-suited to children who benefit from supportive prewriting activities.

These strategies and more are modeled and explained in this practical training program.

• teach your struggling readers powerful comprehension strategies that will help them work through printed text with deeper understanding
• strengthen struggling students' ability to predict and summarize
• increase children's recognition of key words and ideas
• help young readers monitor their understanding of what they are reading with greater accuracy and confidence
• promote the transfer of comprehension strategies into individual reading for even your most reluctant readers

Linda Hoyt is an outstanding educator, author and expert national presenter in the area of reading instruction. With experience as a classroom teacher, Title I teacher, program and curriculum specialist, Linda understands the realities of working with struggling readers. In these videotape training programs, she demonstrates excellent, straightforward strategies that are immediately usable in your instructional setting.

WHAT YOUR COLLEAGUES SAY

"Linda Hoyt is a dynamic presenter. She covers reading and writing success with practical ideas that can be implemented in the classroom right away."
~ Annie Falconer, Teacher

RESOURCE GUIDE

Included with each videotape training program is a Resource Guide with narrative descriptions of program content, all the blackline masters and resources needed to implement the strategies, additional teaching and management suggestions, and a bibliography.

The Resource Guide is designed:

For Trainers: providing workshop outlines and all the blackline masters and materials you need to conduct training workshops.

For Self-Study: so this program can be added to your staff development library and checked out by individual teachers or teacher teams to be used in self-study. The Resource Guide provides directions, blackline masters and all materials needed for self-study.

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Each individual video program in U.S. funds costs $379.00 plus 5% shipping and handling.
Note: for orders shipped to a WA State address add 9.5% state sales tax.

Each individual video program in Canadian funds costs $379.00 plus 12% shipping and handling.

For orders from outside the U.S. and Canada, please email us.