LITERACY
Effective Fluency Instruction and Progress Monitoring
A large study conducted by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (Pinnell et al., 2005) states that 44 percent of fourth-graders lack the fluency levels necessary for grade level comprehension. Therefore, teaching students research-based strategies for fluent reading builds stamina and increases students’ comprehension levels significantly.
GRADES:
K-6
Curating Your "Just in Time" Early Literacy Toolkit
How do we recover from learning loss in our earliest grades this past school year? Here is a solution!
GRADES:
K-3
Lifting the Level of Student Reading/Writing Proficiency through Powerful Conferring
If we want to make a significant impact on our students’ reading and writing lives- conferring is where the rubber meets the road. It is at the core of differentiating instruction and that is vital for all students. Conferring with students, providing formative feedback and leaning in with a teaching move are powerfully effective and essential ways to bring about quality reading and writing proficiency in a individualized manner.
GRADES:
K-8
State Mandated Dyslexia Workshop for K-2 Educators
Learn everything about what dyslexia is and is not to understanding the NJ regulations and requirements of dyslexia as well as identifying the “look for’ , recognizing dyslexic behaviors and having a toolkit of interventions at the core instructional level will be thoroughly discussed
GRADES:
K-2
Cultivating Reading Engagement and Preventing the Summer Slide
Research indicates that 2 months of reading skills and 2 1/2 months of math skills are lost over a single summer. Plus, the summer slide is cumulative, so those lost months add up over time (Kuhfeld, 2021). Therefore, it is incumbent upon teachers and parents to engage students in consistent reading activities during the summer break
GRADES:
K-6
Accelerating Reading Progress: Balancing Phonics and Language Arts for Optimum Performance
The National Reading Panel conducted an extensive study which found that many students experience difficulties learning to read because of their inadequate phonemic awareness (2000). The combination of explicit instruction phonics instruction coupled with a balance of Literacy correlates to a significant increase in reading progress.
Given this knowledge teachers can finally put the reading debate on whether or not to teach explicit phonics to their students to rest and teach it systematically within the framework of a balanced literacy classroom.
GRADES:
K-6
The Reading Workshop: A Constructivist Model of Learning
The powerful Reading Workshop is a model of instruction that focuses on the work of the reader. Teachers model and directly teach the skills and strategies that proficient readers use. Readers' Workshop allows students to learn skills and strategies while reading books they have selected themselves. The workshop method emphasizes teacher-student conferences and peer conversations about books
GRADES:
K-6
Building Bridges: Using Mentor Texts in Literacy to Increase Motivation, Engagement, and Achievement
This workshop will be focused on various Social Emotional Learning mentor texts that will leverage literacy lesson plans around SEL best practices to increase achievement, engagement, and motivation amongst students.
GRADES:
4-8
Zooming in on Close Reading
This workshop will provide the participants with close reading strategies to enhance deep levels of comprehension, communication and collaborations among students and teachers in grades K-5 and 6-12. By understanding the alignment of literacy standards and close reading strategies
GRADES:
K-12
9 Awesome Reasons to Use Infographics for Leading and Learning
“As the saying goes “a picture is worth a thousand words”, since infographics have both ‘pictures’ and ‘words’, it represents the best of both worlds: the ability to dissect a complex subject, and the ability to sustain the attention of the reader while doing so. “It (infographic) keeps people’s interest by lending a storytelling and visual element to what can be sterile research.” – Caitlin McCabe.
GRADES:
K-12
Highly Effective Comprehension Strategies for Student Engagement
“Without comprehension, children gain no meaning from what they read.” Comprehension strategies are used to increase children's understanding of the text to help them become active readers by engaging with the text.
GRADES:
K-6
Scaffolding Writing Instruction That Supports NJSLS K-8
“Writing is not caught, it must be taught,” Dr. Anita Archer. Teaching structured, consistent lessons in composition helps students to become better communicators and most importantly improves reading skills. The skills taught in writing build upon foundational skills.
Workshop details effective methods for teaching expository writing; persuasive essays, informational pieces and narratives. Focus is on developing student engagement, creating a writing identity, using meaning, organizational skills, structure, elaboration, word choice, conventions of spelling, grammar and punctuation
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