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Comprehension Is Complex! Science of Reading 201 Online On-Demand Course 2025/2026

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Event Description

Comprehension Is Complex is the second course in SOESD's Science of Reading offerings. This course will present an overview of the critical elements of teaching individual students, small groups and whole classes of students reading comprehension skills, as well as the research constructs and studies that support those teaching concepts and strategies.
In this course, we will present some of the key research findings in the Science of Reading, as well as the challenges facing school systems and teachers today in the area of Comprehension. We will explore some of the interfaces of grammar, syntax, vocabulary, text structures and background knowledge. The last module in this course will use Think-Alouds to integrate the comprehension strategies and concepts using authentic texts to apply the skills of comprehension repeatedly. 

Learning Goals
  • Become familiar with the research findings that explain the relationship between oral and written language 
  • Understand the academic vocabulary plays an important role in comprehension and how to teach academic vocabulary thoroughly
  • Explain the functions of parts of speech, nouns, verbs and prepositional phrases, simple, compound and complex sentences. 
  • Develop strategies to teach vocabulary, grammar and syntax, comprehension structures and  strategies that aid a reader in transforming to understand information
  • Become familiar with the teaching strategies for Read-Alouds/Think Alouds
  • Understand the intimate relationship between comprehension and background knowledge
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Module 1 – Introduction to the relationship between oral and written language
Module 2 – Vocabulary – how and why to learn vocabulary deeply and thoroughly
Module 3 – How individual words work together to form phrases, clauses and   sentences 
Module 4 – Text structures and reading comprehension strategies
Module 5 –Think-Alouds – Teachers talking about how they read and understand a text, and model some of the comprehension strategies efficient readers use while reading.

Location

Online Canvas Course

Curricular Group

Interdisciplinary

Fee

Free to all educators within SOESD component districts

Contact Information

Kari Wynn
541-776-8590 ext. 3216
kari_wynn@soesd.k12.or.us

Session Information

Module 1 – Introduction to the relationship between oral and written language


PDUs: 1.00

Module 3 – How individual words work together to form phrases, clauses and sentences


PDUs: 1.00

Module 4 – Text structures and reading comprehension strategies


PDUs: 1.00

Module 5 –Think-Alouds – Teachers talking about how they read and understand a text, and model some of the comprehension strategies efficient readers use while reading


PDUs: 1.00

Module 2 – Vocabulary – how and why to learn vocabulary deeply and thoroughly


PDUs: 1.00

Total PDUs:

5
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