Date: Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Time: 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM ET
Location: Online, via Zoom
Who Should Attend: Grades K-2 teachers and coaches
Cost: $150 per person
For teaching to stick, it is important that you teach with confidence and power. That can be hard these days when the ground on which we stand as teachers has been shifting. This conference day is designed to help you draw on reading research, on your data, AND on all that you know about teaching well so that you can teach with the confidence, clarity and decisiveness you need to move your kids forward.
The day will help you learn from all your assorted assessments and combine what you see with a basic understanding of reading and writing development, so that you can cluster your kids and support each cluster’s progress with assurance. The day will, in a sense, be a giant if-then chart, helping you to know what the most significant indicators are that you should be looking for, and helping you have a ground plan for how to support each cluster of your students–in phonics, reading and writing–in unified ways.
One topic that will be addressed is this: Given research on the science of reading, what type of instruction is – and isn’t – ”allowed”? You listen to a child read, and think, “Holy cow! How, exactly, can I help?” Whether you are a kindergarten, first-grade, or second-grade teacher, you will walk away from this day with “go to” resources to support this work.
Across this day, expect to:
Be supported as you make doable plans for administering assessments, exploring time-saving tools and receiving guidance on priorities. Consider ways to avoid redundancy in the assessments you give.
Examine how you can most efficiently learn from early assessments, such as Letter/Sound ID, Concepts of Print, Phonological Awareness, and Phonic Decoding, in order to recognize whether students are getting stuck and to plan next steps.
Consider common obstacles that come up as readers go through Ehri's beginning stages of reading development, pre-, partial, and full alphabetic phases, and plan next steps to draw upon as you teach.
Learn strategies Nell Duke offers for supporting readers who can segment but struggle to blend. We will build off Duke's various ways to scaffold blending and share small groups you can try in your classrooms immediately.
Study transferable coaching prompts that will help you support early reading behaviors around concepts of print, word solving, and monitoring. Using the pictures still matters, but learn how this strategy has shifted.
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
High Leverage Small Groups in Reading that Take Little Prep and Make the World of Difference