Keys to Literacy Webinar Archive
April 9, 2008
The Key Comprehension Routine:
Comprehension Strategy Instruction
This webinar with Joan Sedita, Founding Partner of Keys to Literacy,
will review the research on effective comprehension instruction and introduce participants to a
model for embedding comprehension strategy instruction into content classroom instruction.
Three foundational skills will be introduced: main idea skills, note taking and summarizing.
Activities that incorporate these skills will also be reviewed, including topic webs, generating
questions from main idea, two-column notes, and summaries from reading and class lecture.
This webinar will be particularly useful for classroom teachers, administrators, and literacy
specialists working with grades 4 through 12.
October 24, 2007
Tools for Literacy:
Technology to Support Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development
Technology provides a new opportunity to remove barriers to learning and improve the literacy
skills of all students. Through discussion and demonstration, Kathleen H. McClaskey, President of
EdTech Associates, and
Joan Sedita, founding partner of Keys To Literacy, will introduce
participants to accessible desktop and "no cost" online tools that can be used to support
the teaching and learning of reading comprehension and vocabulary strategies. Suggestions
will be provided for how these technology tools can be used to develop topic webs and graphic
organizers; identify, highlight, and pull out main ideas and details into notes; generate
summaries; and support word-study skills such as focusing on word parts and creating semantic
webs. This event will emphasize the importance of direct comprehension and vocabulary instruction,
as well as how to integrate the technology tools into this instruction.