Fall 2025 Course: Best Practices in Reading Comprehension

Module 1 Reading: "Advancing Our Students' Language and Literacy:
The Challenge of Complex Texts," by Marilyn Jager Adams.

Module 4 Reading: "Teaching Vocabulary Early, Direct, and Sequential," by Andrew Biemiller.

Module 3 Reading: "Role of the Reader's Schema In
Comprehension, Learning, and Memory," by Richard C. Anderson.

Module 2 Reading: "The Challenge of Challenging Text: When teachers understand what makes texts complex, they can better support their students in reading them," by Timothy Shanahan, Douglas Fisher, and Nancy Frey.

Module 2 Reading: "My top 10 list for your examiner," by Bruce Jolly.

Module 5 Activity:The Three Little Pigs Story Map

Module 5: Creating Questions for Close Analytic Reading Exemplars: A Brief Guide

Module 6: Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" Activity

Module 6 Reading: Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address"