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DISTANCE CLASSES

Developing a Reading Workshop Classroom

        Mary Mitchell and Jackie Knapp

Discover a mix of instructional components to incorporate into your Reading Workshop Classroom.  Learn practical strategies that support students while they gain reading independence.  Discuss how to put students at the center of literacy learning, as well as how to shape instruction to support ALL your learners.

Topics include how to develop a community of life-long readers using the Workshop Approach and how to employ instructional strategies that connect student learning to their independent reading.  Move from just teaching reading to developing readers! Required texts for K-3: More Than Guided Reading: Finding the Right Instructional Mix, K-3, by Cathy Mere. For 4-8: The Reading Workshop: Creating Space for Readers, by Frank Serafini. Grades K-8 (3 credits PSU: CI-810).

Fall:

   Register anytime until 11/5/10.

    Course work due 12/5/10.        

    Grades posted online (www.pdx.edu) 12/15/10.

Fees:   3 Graduate Quarter Credits: $165 PSU + $480 TINT

     (Noncredit: $480 TINT) 

Fees**

Portland State University is changing the way fees are collected.

Although total tuition amounts are unchanged PSU credit students will now make two payments:

1. a course fee payable to TINT (paid by all students)

2. a credit fee payable to PSU (paid by credit students only)

All materials and assignments will be found online and can be completed through email or sent to your instructor in the mail. Grades available online (www.pdx.edu).

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