Literacy Professional Development
and Training for Instructional
Coaches and Classroom Teachers
ELA Common Core State Standards: Taking It to the Literacy Block
Description: The new ELA CCSS insist that instruction in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language be a shared responsibility within the school. Teachers must understand WHAT the new English Language Arts standards require and HOW to provide standards based instruction during the Literacy Block.
Comprehension Instruction: Developing a Common Comprehension Language
Description: The goal of all reading is understanding. Participants will learn how to facilitate effective comprehension instruction that results in students becoming highly engaged and strategic readers who are equipped to make meaning from the texts they read.
Implementation of a Structured Independent Student Reading Program
Description: Regardless of gender and economic background, the volume of reading a student engages in is a strong predictor of his or her reading comprehension and reading fluency. Participants will learn the crucial components required to provide an effective, structured independent student reading program in buildings and classrooms.
Vocabulary Instruction: The Wonderful World of Words
Description: There is a strong connection between a student’s vocabulary and their comprehension of text. Participants will learn teaching strategies and student activities that help build student’s word consciousness and expand their speaking, reading and writing vocabularies.
Creating and Organizing a Literacy Rich Classroom Environment
Description: A successful literacy classroom has specific and identifiable characteristics that are conducive for literacy instruction. Participants will learn how to create a classroom culture and community that prioritizes the key components of Literacy: Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking.
Literacy Across the Curriculum: Content Area Teachers are Literacy Teachers
Description: Literacy instruction is a shared responsibility within a school. Educators must be equipped to help students become successful consumers of informational text. Participants will learn instructional routines that will facilitate greater understanding of expository texts.
Literacy 101: Understanding Balanced & Comprehensive Literacy Instruction
Description: Educators must understand the characteristics and components of a balanced approach to literacy instruction. Participants will learn how to organize for effective literacy instruction utilizing a comprehensive view of literacy that includes explicit instruction, guided practice, collaborative learning and independent reading and writing opportunities.
High Yield Strategies Applied During the Literacy Block
Description: This professional development series is based upon the work of researchers Robert Marzano, Debra Pickering, and Jane Pollock in their book, Classroom Instruction that Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement. Participants will learn HOW to employ the research-based strategies during Reading/Language Arts instruction to increase student‘s literacy achievement.
