Collaborative Strategies for teaching Reading and Comprehension

Sunday, 11/2

Maximizing your Impact: 

Classroom-Library Co-Teaching Information Literacy and Reading Comprehension with Judi Moreillon 

"Two heads are better than one!"

As library teachers should be chanting this after seeing the presentation by Judi Moreillon. Library Teachers can impact reading comprehension by collaborating with classroom teachers and reading specialists.

Using her gift for storytelling, Judi demonstrated the 7 Reading Strategies: 

1. Using or Building Background Knowledge
2. Using Sensory Images
3. Questioning, Making Predictions and Inferences
4. Determining Main Ideas
5. Using Fix-up Options
6. Synthesizing.  

Then she showed us how these strategies have a direct correlation with the AASL standards.

"Teaching is too difficult to do alone: collaborate with our teacher-librarian."  Judi then when on to describe different types of collaboration:

1. One Teaching, one supporting
2. Station or Center Teaching
3. Parallel teaching
4. Alternative teaching
5. Team Teaching

These co-teaching approaches are outlined in her book Collaborative Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension which I purchased directly after the workshop. I look forward to reading and sharing it's contents with the teachers and other librarians in my district!

Judi's handouts and more are available on her web site storytrail.com