The LitART After School Reading Training can help your staff achieve excellent results. Each of these trainings is a 3 hour workshop.

Using Drama to Promote Comprehension

Any teacher can use pantomime, improvisation, charades, readers' theatre, dramatic retellings, video, music, dance, and role-playing to help students understand text. These techniques are especially appropriate for English Language learners. Everything you need to know to integrate drama into the classroom.

Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies

Research shows that students who are taught comprehension strategies become better readers and score higher on reading assessments. This step-by-step approach to teaching comprehension strategies presents teacher-proven ways to use reciprocal teaching, KWL, QAR, story maps, semantic webs, character analysis, and other comprehension tools.

Reading in Context: Using Literature and Other Texts to Develop Reading Skills

Reading skills can and should be taught, but you don't need to forfeit interesting reading materials to teach reading. Learn 50 Ways to promote literacy development using high-quality children's literature. A great way to supplement your basic reader.

Media Literacy: Understanding Print Not Found In Books

Students encounter more and more text outside of books. Explore exciting ways to help students critically assess messages in the media including television, the Internet, magazines, advertisements, and other non-book print messages.

Teaching Reading in the Content Areas

A comprehensive exploration of how reading can and should be taught during social studies, math, science, and every other part of the day.

Scientifically based reading made interesting. Amazing."

-- Reading Teacher, San Francisco, California