The International Dyslexia Association - Ohio Valley Branch

Saturday, March 20, 2010.             

Vocabulary & Comprehension:

The Best Way to Integrate the Two

         Presented by Mary Dahlgren

Mary Dahlgren, Ed.D, is president of MED Consulting  and Tools 4 Reading. She  has over twenty years of experience teaching children and training teachers. She has worked as a classroom teacher, reading specialist, teacher trainer and consultant to numerous state departments of education and local education agencies. She is a National LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) trainer, an Academic Language Therapy Association qualified instructor and an Alphabetic Phonics therapist. She is the former Executive Director of Payne Education Center, a non-profit teacher training center in Oklahoma.

The Center was established to provide teacher training for teachers of dyslexic students and to support for parents of dyslexic children. Mary served as an evaluator on the E-TEAM at the University of Oklahoma that conducted the national evaluation of the Reading Success Network. This provided Mary the opportunity to observe and assess reading instruction in kindergarten through third grade classrooms all over the United States.  Dr. Dahlgren is a founding board member of a school for adjudicated youth, SeeWorth Academy, organized by the late Chief Justice Alma Wilson. Justice Wilson named the school SeeWorth in hopes the children would “see the worth’ in education and the future. Mary's passion is to help everyone involved in reading instruction to feel equipped and confident in order to make a difference in the lives of children.

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•Comprehension and Vocabulary go hand in hand, 

            so what is the best way to integrate the two?

•Vocabulary: Which is more important, breadth or depth?

•Comprehension: When is strategy instruction enough, 

         and what do you do beyond strategies?

•Time will be given to respond to questions and review current

research on vocabulary and comprehension.  Best practices from

the research will be integrated throughout the day.  This session promises to be filled with a number of hands-on, multisensory

activities to engage participants during the presentation.  These

exercises are also guaranteed to be user friendly and adaptable

for instruction in any instructional setting immediately.

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