Sept. 24: Extended Learning offers reading efficiency and comprehension workshop

The Office of Extended Learning will offer an on-site, face-to-face Reading Efficiency & Comprehension workshop for high school and college students. This basic workshop will offer readers the opportunity to interactively fine-tune their reading skills and enhance reading speed.

The workshop will address:

• Slow reading
• Issues remembering what’s been read
• Tips on reading more efficiently and effectively

The workshop takes place from 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 24, in 61 O’Kelly Hall, which is UND’s Student-Centered Active Learning Environment for Undergraduate Programs (SCALE-UP) classroom. The cost is $149 per person.

“We’re very excited to host this workshop,” said Patricia Young, coordinator of UND’s Personal & Professional Development program. “We have a fantastic instructor in Katie Arthur, an offering that builds a reader’s self-esteem and confidence, and it comes with an affordable price tag.”

Arthur graduated from UND with a master’s degree in reading education and is a teacher in the Interventions Program at Grand Forks Central High School. In 2012, Arthur received the Lake Agassiz Reading Council Literacy Award, and in 2013, she received the North Dakota Newspaper in Education Teacher of the Year award.

“It’s important for readers to have the confidence they need in order to succeed in a classroom setting,” Young said. “Whether their classroom is in a university or college setting or at high school, the benefits of strengthening one’s reading skills can’t be overstated.”

This is the only Reading Efficiency & Comprehension workshop being offered this academic year.

To register, please visit our website, or call UND’s Office of Extended Learning at 1.800.CALL.UND.