Dates: November 6-7, 2008

Location: To be Determined

Cost: $350 for members $385 for nonmembers.

Registration: http://www.lapdavt.org

This workshop is appropriate for educators with students who are on a reading level of grade 4 - 8.

A skilled reader searches for and retrieves information that has been learned in the past, monitors new information, and integrates past and present information in a meaningful way. The reader is goal-oriented, reflective, and active. In short, the reader is “thinking about thinking” or is using metacognitive skills.

It is not sufficient for students to simply translate symbols on a printed page into words. They must also attach meaning to those words. Comprehension is the process by which a reader makes sense of text. There is no single cause of difficulties with comprehension. Some comprehension difficulties stem from inefficient or inaccurate decoding. Difficulties in listening comprehension may result in poor reading comprehension, which is further complicated by deficiencies in oral language, vocabulary, world knowledge, working memory, and/or metacognitive skills.

About this Workshop:

This workshop uses the Neuhaus Education Center's Developing Metacognitive Skills curriculum, which builds the foundational skills for comprehension and incorporates research-based strategies that simulate what good readers do before, while, and after they read.

This workshop provides 30-45 minute group lessons and activities for developing vocabulary and metacognitive skills to reinforce decoding and fluency. The curriculum is taught at three levels:

• Listening Comprehension
• Transitional Metacognition
• Guided Metacognition

Materials provided include a manual with 75 lessons, rapid word recognition and connect/correct/collect charts, vocabulary webs, reproducible masters, Word Detective, and Walter Pauk's Six Way Paragraphs.

For more information go to www.neuhaus.org

About the Presenter:

Deardra (“Dee”) Ledet-Rosenberg is the Director of Education at the Newgrange School and Education Center, in Princeton, New Jersey. Dee received her B.A in Elementary Education from Towson University and an M.A. in Learning Disabilities from Montclair State University. She is a certified Learning Disabilities Teacher Consultant, and she has had over twenty years of teaching experience in the public schools. Before taking the position as the Director of Education, Dee was the Lead Teacher in Special Education and a member of the Child Study Team, at Mendham High School in Northwest New Jersey, for fifteen years. She has spoken nationally and internationally about a variety of subjects relating to students with learning disabilities and dyslexia. Dee is a Wilson Language trainer, and a trainer of Developing Metacognitive Skills. She has had training in all strands of Project Read, and the Language! Program. Dee has consulted with many districts around New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania to assist in improving their literacy programs. She currently serves as the Vice President of the Board of the New Jersey Branch of the International Dyslexia Association.