Target Audience: General Education Teachers working with students with IEP’s. Co-Teachers, Interventionist, Instructional Coaches, Resource Teachers

The Word Mapping Strategy is a research-based strategy developed at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning that is designed to help older students learn how to predict the meaning of unknown words.  This strategy helps students identify prefixes, suffixes, and roots and practice predicting the meaning of words using those parts. 

Instruction in this strategy works best when students have learned basic decoding skills (reading at 4th grade level or higher).  This strategy can be taught in different kinds of instructional settings including content area classes, Tier 2 and Tier 3 settings, and special education classes. 

Participants will receive a copy of the Word Mapping book and access to a Google Folder which includes electronic resources. This will be an in-person session. For questions, contact erica.price@ckec.org or laura.smith@ckec.org