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This day will help self-contained and inclusive classroom teachers with methods, strategies and structures to support their students.

This workshop will help you learn half a dozen especially high leverage and easy-to-lead small groups that you can be ready to lead at an instant’s notice. One huge part of this work will be devoting time to creating a toolkit of resources that you can keep close at hand as you teach.

This workshop will help you work with your read-alouds, as well as a diverse set of short texts, in order to help your students dig into complex texts. You’ll help rally your students to pore over these texts in order to make meaning from them, to write about them to answer text-based questions about them. You’ll hear about syntax surgery as a way to help kids to excavate complex texts, about ways to promote rereading, about the power of debate as a tool for close reading, and about using AI to unpack complex texts. 

On this day, you’ll learn to look through a stack of your students’ writing to see patterns and next steps in their spelling. This will help you to understand what has–and hasn’t yet–stuck in their phonics development.

When students grow their vocabulary, they also grow their knowledge of the ideas that authors use– ideas like justice, evaporate, or revolve. They also grow their ability to capture their own powerful ideas in words, and share them with the world. Join us for a day that will help you feel more confident teaching vocabulary– and growing students’ worlds. 

On this day, we’ll help you feel more confident in your knowledge of the work kids need to be doing at varied levels of text complexity, while reading different genres, and at the beginning, middle and end of books, so that you have a criteria in mind with which to assess your readers’ work and clear next steps you can suggest. We’ll also help you to consider ways in which your feedback to readers can be part of a larger, more sustained plan for them, and we’ll share ways you can follow up and build upon your feedback.  

With so much emphasis placed on phonics and decoding, you may be worried that comprehension is falling by the wayside. This workshop support comprehension, oral language, and vocabulary instruction across your day, in particular through read-aloud and shared reading.

This day will help you learn the most up-to-date information regarding your reading state test and The Reading & Project at Mossflower Reading Test Prep Units. Our staff developers will review tasks of the test so that you feel completely confident and prepared to teach them and will help you effectively use our resources as you prepare your students for the various high-stakes ELA tests they will take this spring.

This day will help you learn the most up-to-date information regarding your writing state test and The Reading & Project at Mossflower Writing Test Prep Units. Our staff developers will review tasks of the test so that you feel completely confident and prepared to teach them and will help you effectively use our resources as you prepare your students for the various high-stakes ELA tests they will take this spring. 

This day will also help you plan how to lift the level of your conferring using the latest tools such as the writing checklist, exemplars, mentor texts, and craft cards. You will walk away with a toolkit of ways to mark your read alouds for teaching during conferences, small groups, or mini lessons.