Professional Learning Catalog 2024

Literacy Development

Supporting Fluency Development

Recommended for: K–5 teachers and instructional coaches Time: Three hours Item #s: In Person: 684131 Virtual: 743481 Participants: Up to 30

Teacher-Managed Instruction

Science of Reading

In this session participants will learn the science behind how fluency helps build students’ reading comprehension. Participants will learn strategies for improving reading fluency and leave the session with a practical plan for incorporating fluency- building activities into their instruction. Learning outcomes: • Understand the science behind how fluency supports comprehension • Practice instructional strategies to address prosody and automaticity • Create a plan for developing high-impact fluency instruction

Recommended Reading

The Megabook of Fluency by Dr. Timothy V. Rasinski

Choosing and Using Decodable Texts by Dr. Wiley Blevins

Phonics Instruction That Leads to Orthographic Mapping

Recommended for: K–5 teachers and instructional coaches Time: Three hours Item #s: In Person: 737913 Virtual: 743480 Participants: Up to 30

Teacher-Managed Instruction

Science of Reading

Learn how the work of cognitive scientists should shape classroom instruction to ensure that students go beyond letter-sound connections to orthographic mapping. Participants will examine how to assess and analyze students’ phonic knowledge and decoding skills. We’ll also explore practical phonics activities for whole-class and small-group settings that will keep students engaged while providing systematic and explicit instruction. Learning outcomes:

• Name the role that phonics plays in the Science of Reading and how it affects early literacy development​ • Define phonics​

• Assess and analyze students’ phonics skills • Plan and facilitate data-informed instruction for phonics

Recommended Reading

The Literacy 50 by Melissa Loftus & Lori Sappington

7 Mighty Moves by Lindsay Kemeny

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