Expository text reading accounts for the majority of reading we do as adults, yet reporting category 3 on the STAAR test results indicate that this is the type of reading students struggle with the most. 

Teaching students to read expository text requires teachers to plan for both the level of difficulty to read the text but also consider fluency, strategic thinking skills, and reading stamina required along with learning how intentionally select skills and strategies in order to think within, beyond, and about factual texts. In this session, participants will learn how to plan for comprehension, teach students how to summarize, make inferences, and process informational text, deepen content knowledge and examine the TEKS SE’s for information texts, and learn strategies for teaching students to go beyond the words on the page and think critically about texts to specifically target instruction related to our students with specific learning disabilities to make progress in general education setting.