2018 Workshop Talk | 58:26 | K-6, Literature
Summary
Meaning filled reading requires the ability to make inferences and find underlying motivations and themes in the literature we read. Learn strategies to make the invisible task of comprehension apparent and understandable for all of your grammar students. Send your students off into the dialectic phase of their education not just able to read the words on the page, but wearing a belt full of tools enabling them to make sense of what they read.
Speaker
If Elizabeth Mackes had to pick four words to name that which is most near and dear to her, they would be: Christ, family, books, and coffee. Elizabeth began teaching third grade at Rockbridge Academy in 2014. Her journey into reading education began with a daughter who had dyslexia along with a great desire to read. Elizabeth holds a BA in history from Sweet Briar College, a JD from Saint Louis University School of Law, and a certification in early childhood education. Over the years of classroom teaching and tutoring, Elizabeth has collected many practical activities to help students improve their reading comprehension. Elizabeth and her husband, Joe, have three children. Their daughter, Claire, will be a senior at Rockbridge Academy this fall; sons James and Stephen are Rockbridge alumni attending Covenant College and Mercer University, respectively. Elizabeth looks forward to sharing her ideas about teaching reading and to visiting the local coffee shops.
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The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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