Dates: Monday, May 5, 2025 - Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM ET
Location: Online, via Zoom
Who Should Attend: Grades 3-8 teachers, coaches, and school leaders
Cost: $700 per person
This institute will equip you with methods, knowledge, and resources in phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension to help you meet the needs of all your learners. We’ll focus on ways assessment systems can help monitor student progress and support you as you design effective assessment-based instructional pathways that work to foster foundational literacy and language skill development.
In this institute, you will:
Learn practical assessments that can inform your teaching, including a decoding assessment and a fluency assessment that can channel kids into lively work that promises immediate payoff.
Learn ways to support students as they decode multisyllabic words, build their phonological awareness, and strengthen their sight vocabularies.
Learn ways that your upper-elementary learners can benefit from decodable texts, and how to embed them within your reading workshop.
Learn ways to incorporate shared reading to support fluency into partner work.
Explore the role of digital texts and read-alouds (and video-alouds) that give students access to complex grade-level texts to support comprehension.
Study bands of text complexity and learn powerful ways to support students as they transition into chapter books and move up levels. We’ll also share the types of series, authors, and titles that get students of all ages to want to read.
Learn ways to use AI to help localize and enhance your instruction.
Grammar and Spelling Institute
Study Group: Leadership for These Complex Times
Study Group: Integrating Close Reading and Complex Texts Into a Curriculum that Prioritizes Kids Reading Just-Right Books
Study Group: Including Strong Vocabulary Work Inside Rich Reading Workshops
Bring the Best of the Science of Reading into Your Reading Workshop: Integrating Decodable Texts, Phonological Awareness, Orthographic Mapping, and Knowledge Building into Your Reading Workshop
Tap the Power of the New Writing Units of Study—Including Small Groups and Grammar and Spelling Supports
Teach Middle and High Schoolers a Potent Unit on the Personal Essay–and Create a Supportive Classroom Community in the Process
Aligning Fundations (or Another Phonics Curriculum) with the Reading and Writing Units of Study in Ways that Support Your Kids’ Overall Literacy Development
Maintaining a Writing Workshop Alongside Core Reading Programs
Using Data and a Knowledge of Reading and Writing Development to Be Confident, Clear and Decisive in Supporting Your Students’ Growth